On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:54:05PM +0200, Eric Lilja wrote: >As many of you may know, the binary distribution of MySQL for Windows >only ships with MSVC++ libraries. They have no binary distribution for >Cygwin. So what do you do if you want to develop c or c++ programs >talking to a native Windows MySQL server using the cygwin tools? > >Well, you can compile the client libraries yourself. Here's how I did it: >$ tar xvzf mysql-5.1.16-beta.tar.gz >$ cd mysql-5.1.16-beta >$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql-5.1.16-beta >--exec-prefix=/usr/local/mysql-5.1.16-beta --without-server >--without-docs --without-man >$ make >$ make install > >Keep the source directory so you can uninstall with: >$ make uninstall
If only there was some mechanism for sending precompiled cygwin-aware mysql clients to a wider audience... Nah. That's a crazy dream. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
