From: <sinisa
Date: March 19 1999 12:35am
Subject: Cygwin/MySQL
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Simon Weatherill writes:
 > Has anyone successfully compiled a program under Cygwin?
 > 
 > I have a UNIX application that I'd like to run under Windows (it's a
 > server, so there are no GUI portions). I can compile my application uner
 > Cygwin, but have problems linking the libraries. Are they the wrong format?
 > Do I need UNIX style library archives (.a)?
 > 
 > I'm using the Windows demo version of MySQL (3.21.29).
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Simon
 > 
 > 
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 > 

Hi!

I have worked for the last 20 days with cygwin in order to make MySQL
GUI Client to work under Windoze.

You can not work with cygwin with Windoze version of MySQL. If nothing 
else, simply because cygwin requires .a libs and not dll's. Or at
least .a libs with exports for .dll.


I had to build two versions of mysql clients, from Unix versions. One
for Windoze text mode (command prompt) and the other for GUI
version. It is very difficult to work like me, with no support and
with out a single line of documentation.

So, the conclusion, you should consider buying support and / or docs
from Cygnus.

Sinisa

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