Re: [Mysqlcppapi-main] RE: install problems

['Jonathan W. <co...@co...>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:05:53PM -0600, Neil Chakrabarty wrote:

> Sorry to keep bothering, but I can't figure this error out when making the
> library:

That's OK. I misunderstood earlier and thought you meant you had built
mysqlcppapi but couldn't link your own program, so wasn't very clear.

> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.3.2/../../../crtn.o  -Wl,-soname
> -Wl,libmysqlcppapi-1.9-1.9.so.4 -o .libs/libmysqlcppapi-1.9-1.9.so.4.0.0
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the only bit of interest, when creating the mysqlcppapi library
the linker tries to find the MySQL client library, so you need to tell
the linker how to find the file libmysqlclient.so

You must specify the path to your mysql installation when you configure
the library, by using --with-mysql
e.g.
    ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --other-args ...

If make still fails then you can tell the linker exactly where to find
the lib by setting the LDFLAGS variable when running configure. The value
of that variable will be passed directly to the linker.
e.g.
    LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/mysql/lib ./configure --other-args ...

The directory you specify with -L in the LDFLAGS variable should be the
one that contains libmysqlclient.so, which you should be able to find by
typing "locate libmysqlclient".

Let me know what the output of "locate" is and what options you passed
to configure if you still can't build mysqlcppapi.

jon

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