Re: Installing MySQL++ on Slackware 8.1

OK, sorry about that. Here are the details.
The README-file says to start with automake and that's what I did...

bash-2.05a# automake
automake: Makefile.am: required file `./INSTALL' not found
automake: Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found
automake: Makefile.am: required file `./COPYING' not found
automake: Makefile.am: required file `./AUTHORS' not found
automake: Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found
automake: configure.in: required file `./depcomp' not found
/usr/share/automake/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake/am/lang-compile.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake/am/lang-compile.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL

As you see, about a million errors. Then somebody in some online-forum told me
to ignore the automake and autoconf commands and go straight for ./configure
so that's what I did and then I got this:

bash-2.05a#./configure
[lots of configure-stuff]
checking for MySQL library directory... /usr/local/mysql/lib
checking for MySQL include directory... configure: error: Didn't find the
mysql include dir in '/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql /usr/local/include/mysql
/opt/mysql/include/mysql /usr/include/mysql'

Now I'm not 100% sure what the configuration is looking for but since there's
a bunch of header-files(.h-files) in /usr/local/mysql/include I thought this
might be the directory it was looking for so I did

bash-2.05a# ./configure --with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/include
[lots of configure-stuff]
checking for MySQL include directory... configure: error: Didn't find the
mysql include dir in '/include/mysql'

and this is basically where I gave up. Could it be that this include-directory
is absent because I installed from a binary-distribution maybe? Do I have to
uninstall then and download the source-distribution instead? I'm sorry for
wasting everybodys time but please help me out here.

Daniel Löfquist

At 18:00 2002-09-29 +0200, you wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 02:21:56PM +0200, Daniel Löfquist / Kings Of Code 
> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> > I'm new to this list, just joined yesterday.
> > Anyway, I have a problem. I need to write an application in C++ that
> > connects to a MySQL-database so naturally I downloaded MySQL++. It
> > installed very nicely on my Windows-machine but when I tried to install 
> the
> > Linux-version on my Slackware-machine all I got was a bunch of errors. My
> > MySQL-installation is from the binary-distribution and it has worked great
> > this far. However, I just can't seem to get MySQL++ installed. Somebody
> > told me to go get the Development-RPM from the MySQL-site and install that
> > and that then installing MySQL++ should be no problem. Wrong. I still 
> can't
> > get the thing to install. All I get is a million different errors. I know
> > others have had problems installing MySQL++ on Linux. Will someone PLEASE
> > help me because I really need to get this working SOON. Some 
> easy-to-follow
> > line-by-line-instructions would be very nice, and I don't mean like in the
> > README-file because obviously those instructions did not work for me. I've
> > tried a million different online-forums to no avail so I'm getting very
> > desperate here.
> >
>
> I've got mysql++ installed on several slackwaresystems, what are the
> errors, you'll need to supply detailed (preferably copy'n'paste)
> errorreports. The gibberish you're feeding us now can't really help us
> track down the error.
>
>
> Please come again ;-)
>
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