From: Warren Young
Date: May 3 2005 10:46pm
Subject: Re: cygwin configure can't find mysql libs
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Bernd Prager wrote:

> I can see only 2 alternatives: either transfering libmysql.lib into an
> .a library (creating a .def file with impdef and then an .a file with
> dlltool; 

That should work.  I've read that Cygwin's ld can link against Microsoft 
C libraries.

>  compiling a Unix source MySQL just for the sake of the libraries.

Yes.  You should be able to use a program linked to Cygwin-built MySQL 
libraries with the native database server.

I imagine someone has built Cygwin MySQL binaries before, but I couldn't 
find anything quickly.  The mail archive (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/) 
isn't responding at the moment.