[odb-users] ODB Compilation under MinGW

[Adrien G]

That's weird, same problem occures... :/

> From: adrien_chem at hotmail.com
> To: odb-users at codesynthesis.com
> Subject: RE: [odb-users] ODB Compilation under MinGW
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:21:56 +0100
> 
> Oh ok, I didn't know that I could rename a .lib into .a like that. I'm going to try !
> Thank you :)
> 
> > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:35:45 +0200
> > From: boris at codesynthesis.com
> > To: adrien_chem at hotmail.com
> > CC: odb-users at codesynthesis.com
> > Subject: Re: [odb-users] ODB Compilation under MinGW
> > 
> > Hi Adrien,
> > 
> > Adrien G <adrien_chem at hotmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > configure: error: libmysqlclient_r is not found
> > > So I download here the mysql connector for linux generic Linux [...]
> > 
> > If I undrstand you correctly, you are building on MinGW/Windows and you
> > downloaded a pre-built MySQL library for Linux. That's not going to work.
> > You cannot use Linux libraries on Windows.
> > 
> > What you need to do is download the MySQL client for Windows (that was 
> > built with VC++). Then rename libmysql.lib to libmysqlclient_r.a.
> > 
> > For SQLite, you will need to build the library from source for MinGW.
> > Get the sqlite-autoconf package and then use configure & make under
> > MSYS to build it for MinGW.
> > 
> > Boris
>