From: Michael Widenius Date: April 10 1999 12:03pm Subject: documentation suggestion List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/1632 Message-Id: <14095.15872.86590.23946@monty.pp.sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Friend writes: Lars> I have a suggestoin for the documentation (and maybe a little code). Lars> First, here is some background to my suggestion: Lars> I have been trying out MySQL under linux, and it is quite spiffy, and i Lars> really like the C API. I wanted to port my client to windows, and i found Lars> that the documentation only covered doing it through ODBC (which is a Lars> painfully convoluded way to get at stuff, and requires more code changes Lars> than the rest of the port altogether). What i did was i downloaded the Lars> ODBC driver source, and i happily found that underneath all the odbc stuff Lars> was just an already ported verson of the API i was using under Linux Lars> (along with some support libraries). I compiled all the libraries and did Lars> a little tinkering with the linking (they replace part of the Visual C Lars> standard library set) and linked this all into my application, and all was Lars> well. Lars> My suggestion is that it could save many people quite a bit of time if Lars> the above procedure (possibly cleaned up by somebody who knows how to Lars> teach users how to do stuff) were included in the documentation, or even Lars> better if a version of the C library were available seperate of the ODBC Lars> stuff... Lars> Well, thanks for listening, Lars> Lars Friend (larsfrnd@stripped) Hi! You can find a precomiled mysqlclient.lib + include files with MySQL client distribution. http://www.mysql.com/download.html Regards, Monty