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Re: Mysql
- To: Michael Hoffman <grouse at mail dot utexas dot edu>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Mysql
- From: Stipe Tolj <tolj at wapme-systems dot de>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:06:26 +0200
- Organization: Wapme Systems AG
- References: <Pine.A41.4.21.0109291419191.46506-100000@ginger.cc.utexas.edu>
> > > A caveat: MySQL for Windows uses named pipes to talk to local clients,
> > > whereas the MySQL library you compile will want to use UNIX sockets. I
> > > found the easiest way to get them talking was to always use a host of
> > > 127.0.0.1, forcing INET sockets. Under perl DBI, if you use "localhost,"
> > > somebody decides to be smart and use UNIX sockets anyway.
> > >
> > > An additional caveat: There is probably a better way to do the above.
> > > Stipe?
> >
> > precompiled libraries of mysqlclient-3.x are available at
> > http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/
>
> That is useful information. What I meant to ask is if there is a
> better way to get libmysql to talk to a local MySQL for Windows
> server?
you'll obviously have to use TCP for connecting cygwin based clients
to MySQL for Windows.
AFAIK, there is no other/better way?!
Stipe
tolj@wapme-systems.de
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