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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

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