Subject: Re: Mysql
From: Stipe Tolj <[email-masked]>
To: Michael Hoffman <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:06:26 +0200

> > > A caveat: MySQL for Windows uses named pipes to talk to local clients,
> > > whereas the MySQL library you compile will want to use UNIX sockets. I
> > > found the easiest way to get them talking was to always use a host of
> > > 127.0.0.1, forcing INET sockets. Under perl DBI, if you use "localhost,"
> > > somebody decides to be smart and use UNIX sockets anyway.
> > >
> > > An additional caveat: There is probably a better way to do the above.
> > > Stipe?
> >
> > precompiled libraries of mysqlclient-3.x are available at
> > http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/
> 
> That is useful information. What I meant to ask is if there is a
> better way to get libmysql to talk to a local MySQL for Windows
> server?

you'll obviously have to use TCP for connecting cygwin based clients
to MySQL for Windows. 

AFAIK, there is no other/better way?!

Stipe

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