Re: Shared libs...

[Vivek Khera]

>>>>> "r" == rjb  <rjb@stripped> writes:

r> I'm planning to use the C api to write a client program for a FreeBSD
r> box. I don't really
r> want to install the whole distribution of MySQL to do it. Which rpm
r> contains just the libs
r> I need to do the development? Is it in MySQL-devel or MySQL-shared or
r> both?

If you're on FreeBSD, just use the MySQL client from the ports
collection.  You get the client libraries and the command line clients
with one "make install".  Quite nice.