Re: cygwin strangeness

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Amy & Joseph Kormann wrote:
> Mark, thanks for your reply. My commends inline below.
>
> Mark Matthews wrote:
[snip]
> > Is there a reason the native Win32 binaries we ship won't work for you? 
>
>
> The binaries (mysql, mysqlc and mysqld) appear to work perfectly fine. 
> On par with Oracle and Informix. It's the libraries I'm having problems 
> with. The first problem I noticed was mysqlclient.lib would dramatically 
> fail. The mysql.lib file didn't have load_result but it did allow a 
> clean compile and I was using that successfully to put records into the 
> database. The second problem was when retrieving from the database, I'm 
> getting really strange values back in the MYSQL_RES and MYSQL_ROW objects.

Hmm, maybe it's a problem with the way you are using them? What are 
these strange values? MyODBC sits on top of libmysql, and doesn't have 
these issues, so maybe by seeing the problems you're having, someone 
could point something out.

> > They should save you a lot of hassle. Even though you could, we don't 
> > recommend running MySQL on Cygwin, we have binaries that we've 
> > compiled with VC++, and of course, you are welcome to download the 
> > Windows' sources and compile it yourself, if you so desire (they're at 
> > the bottom of the downloads page, in the 'Source Code' section). 
>
>
> If I compile MySQL on Cygwin, what luck would I have? From the stories 
> I've seen googling around, MySQL doesn't want to compile very clean on 
> Cygwin. Plus it's buggy, crashes and has unknown effects.
>
> Let me pose the question this way: on a Win32 system, what is the 
> recommended development environment? My goal is to do school development 
> that I can port the source code over to a Linux system and recompile. I 
> figured my best bet was to use Cygwin (a unix-style environment).

Well, libmysql isn't any different (function signature-wise) on any O/S, 
so as long as you're using vanilla C or C++, doing I/O with stdlib, etc, 
you should be fine.

Most of our users aren't doing straight C development on win32, they 
either use MyODBC or JDBC (Java).

        -Mark
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