Christopher Faylor wrote:
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.
Do you mean it's a suitable candidate for an official cygwin package so
it can be easily found and installed (whereas this post is not easy to
encounter unless you do some searching or happen to check the list) or
was it just your way of saying that my post was noise? I'd love to
maintain such a package if there is interest. But I have never
maintained a package before and it seems somewhat involved, heh.
- Eric
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