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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Stephan Erickson" <erickson AT mufassa DOT com>, <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: mysql server out of the list
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:40:48 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephan Erickson" <erickson AT mufassa DOT com>
To: <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:35 PM
Subject: mysql server out of the list


> Looks like the MySQL server is not doable due to the way Cygwin
threads
> are implemented, according to the authors.. Only 3 packages then.
> - Stephan
>
>
>
> Kaj Arnö writes:
> > Stephan,
> >
> > As opposed to a number of other products with a Unix background,
MySQL
> > already works well under Windows without any cygwin. Interfacing
MySQL
> > with cygwin is thus not needed; performance would deteriorate, and a
port
> > would likely incur problems with threads.
> >
> > However, the mysql command line interface could be ported to cygwin;
it
> > might even be that this has already been done.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Kaj
> >
>
> Few additional comments to Kaj's excellent message.
>
> Kaj is right on all accounts. And yes, our client has been ported with
> Cygwin, and is a part of every Win32 distro, under the name of
> mysqlc.exe.

Which, last I heard, still doesn't include the cygwin source, and is in
fact a GPL violation (see the thread I started on the win32-mysql list).

> Regarding a server, as CygWin does not support properly threads on
> Win32, it is not doable. This is not important, as VC++, which we use
> for building MySQL for Win32,  still makes 10% faster code then latest
> CygWin.

I'm the Cygwin pthreads maintainer, can you specify what you mean by
'does not support properly threads on win32' ?

Rob