[Lazarus] Lazarus & MySQL 5.1

Henry Vermaak henry.vermaak at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 12:52:40 CET 2010


On 3 March 2010 09:18, Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 March 2010 19:11, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
>>
>> mysql version is a disaster (and one of the reasons why I avoid mysql when I
>> can). IMHO FPC should never hardcode the number in the first place, but
>> should link to mysqlclient.so (using the symlink, the unix way).
>
> I agree completely, and there is already a way to check the client
> library version in the mysql api.

But what if they're dynamically loaded?  Most users won't have the
libname.so symlink installed.

Henry




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