Thanks Warren,
> The more I think about it, the more I like this hypothesis, because
> I don't see how you can link MySQL++ against a static MySQL library
> without changing mysql++.bkl. You're just not given the option to
> do it any other way.
I will play with building the mysql and mysql++ libraries.
Unfortunately, the fink package library server has been down since the
18th. So I am not sure if I can get fink to work w/o that. I have it
installed, which is good.
graham
On Nov 27, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> Graham Reitz wrote:
>> I made a little bit of progress. I was statically linking the
>> libmysqlclient_r.a and dynamically linking the mysqlpp library.
>> When I dynamically linked both the memory alignment message is no
>> longer present.
>> Although, I don't understand why it should matter.
>
> Lo, a crack of light doth shine 'pon the wreckage. Perhaps you
> built MySQL++ against the C API dynamic library, then linked your
> test program against the static version? This would result in two
> copies of all MySQL routines in the final binary, and more
> importantly, a mixture of data structures from one or the other,
> depending on whether they're created by code within MySQL++ or
> whether they don't get instantiated until your test program is built.
>
> The more I think about it, the more I like this hypothesis, because
> I don't see how you can link MySQL++ against a static MySQL library
> without changing mysql++.bkl. You're just not given the option to
> do it any other way.
>
> Other than that, I don't see why mixing linkage types should
> matter. As long as you're consistent in what type of each library
> is linked throughout the project, it shouldn't care. This is GCC
> after all.
>
>> I should probably go ahead and build Fink,
>
> It's not as hard or time-consuming as you might think.
>
> One of my biggest complaints about Fink is that it seems to build a
> lot of stuff from source even if you tell it to prefer binaries, so
> going with the purely source-bootstrapped version seems like a
> difference without a distinction.
>
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