[wplug] mysql.h

[Poyner, Brandon]

You shouldn't end up with a broken mysql-server by installing the mysql
client.  I haven't had that happen to me, anyway, but I've heard of
stranger things.  If you installed the mysql-server from Fedora Core 2
you can use yum to install the development headers.  Of course it wants
to install the mysql client and two perl modules with it.  These really
shouldn't interfere with your existing mysql server.

# yum install mysql-devel
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
..Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[install: mysql-devel 3.23.58-9.i386]
I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the dependencies:
[deps: perl-DBD-MySQL 2.9003-4.i386]
[deps: mysql 3.23.58-9.i386]
[deps: perl-DBI 1.40-4.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]:

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer II
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert L. Jeffries [mailto:rl_jeffries at comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 3:29 PM
To: General user list
Subject: RE: [wplug] mysql.h

Good question, not silly. No they're not installed. I rechecked the
package list, and the add packages list, and I didn't have that option
at installation. 

I downloaded the lib and headers RPM for my version (3.23.58) from
mysql's site and did a rpm -ivh , and rpm -uvh and it told me that it
needs the mysql client.

This brings back memories of when I started to run into problems about 6
months ago. I really do not want to rip out the running mysqld and all
of its files just to replace the entire thing with the addition of the
libs and headers. I've tried that three times, and each time I wind up
with mysql not running(in a nutshell).

To recap, I have mysql running, I'm starting to learn how to write my
own clients(instead of just linking something like MS-Access to it), and
I want to add-on the libraries and headers. I say add-on because in the
past, I've not had the best experiences with pulling out a version of
mysql and putting another one in, which is not currently my focus.

thanks
rlj

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 15:00, Poyner, Brandon wrote:
> Silly question, but have you installed the mysql-devel RPM?  Devel
RPMs
> typically contain the development header files.
> 
> Brandon Poyner
> Network Engineer II
> CCAC - College Office
> 412-237-3086
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert L. Jeffries [mailto:rl_jeffries at comcast.net] 
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 2:42 PM
> To: General user list
> Subject: Re: [wplug] mysql.h
> 
> thank you for the replies,
> Yes, mysql is running as per the distro's installation which is Fedora
> Core 2. I do not want to reinstall mysql. Tried that a while ago and
it
> caused more problems than solutions. I'd like to simply instlall the
> header files. I got the source tarball, I've unpacked it, and I have
the
> headers. I'm trying a couple of things... Can I just continue to
compile
> the code with the -I or is there a need to run "make" and/or "make
> install" just to get the compilers to recognize the location of the
> headers?
> 
> thank you
> rlj
> 
> On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:38, Jonathan S. Billings wrote:
> > On Oct 17, 2004, at 3:29 PM, Robert L. Jeffries wrote:
> > 
> > > hello all,
> > > 	I've got a mysql book here and I'm trying to get code for a
> simple
> > > client to compile. The code asks for stdio.h, and mysql.h. The
> latter I
> > > found I don't have. Does it work to download the source tarball of

> > > mysql
> > > from MySQL's site, unpack it, and copy mysql.h into /usr/include/
?
> > 
> > You shouldn't need to copy any header files into /usr/include.  You 
> > should do the normal "make install" of the package to install it,
and 
> > then add the path to the mysql headers you just installed to your 
> > makefile, or use -I.
> > 
> > However, if you already have mysql installed through your distro's 
> > package system, you'll probably want to install the appropriate
> package 
> > that includes the header files, rather than installing a whole new
> copy 
> > of mysql.
> > 
> > Jonathan
> > 
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