[Zope] ZMySQLDA
Ronald Offerman
ron@rotflol.cx
Wed, 03 Mar 1999 23:42:30 +0100
> Hi,
>
> I'm playing with Zope, and have been trying to get Zope to talk to MySQL
> using the MySQLDA.
>
> I'm running RedHat 5.2
>
> Since there were caveats about having MySQL development enabled, and
> such, I downloaded the source distribution for MySQL and made it. It
> appears to be working very nicely.
>
> When I follow the procedures outlined in the README, the following
> happens:
>
> I run make -f Makefile.pre.in boot and everything works correctly.
>
> I then run make and get the following error.
> gcc -fPIC -g -O2 -I/usr/include/python1.5 -I/usr/include/python1.5
> -DHAVE_CONFIG
> _H -I/usr/local/mysql/include -I/usr/include/mysql -c ./MySQLmodule.c
> ./MySQLmodule.c: In function `pythonify_row':
> ./MySQLmodule.c:238: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
> gcc -shared MySQLmodule.o -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -L/usr/lib/mysql
> -lmysqlclien
> t -lm -o MySQLmodule.so
> ld: cannot open -lmysqlclient: No such file or directory
> make: *** [MySQLmodule.so] Error 1
>
> I did a locate on mysqlclient, and coudln't find the file. though I did
> find some called libmysqlclient. So I changed the both Setup and
> Setup.in to reflect that other name. however, I still get the above
> error.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You almost made it ;=)
The -lmysqlclient does refer to the libmysqlclient you found, but you should only modify the path pointing to it. This is done in the Setp[.in] just before the -lmysqlclient; modify the '-L/<path-to-the-libmysqlclient>', if have this set to -L/usr/local/lib/mysql.
[ZDP] Maybe this is something for the FAQ?
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