Re: MySQL++ and Gentoo

From: Daniel <daniel.cubetek(at)gmail.com>
Date: Tue Oct 23 2007 - 14:06:42 EDT

On 10/23/07, Michael Hanselmann <mysql@hansmi.ch> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:48:10PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
> >> mysql # emerge -s mysql++
> >> Searching...
> >> [ Results for search key : mysql++ ]
> >> [ Applications found : 1 ]
> >> * dev-db/mysql++
> >> Latest version available: 2.2.2-r1
> >
> > This is about 6 months old. If Chris Frey isn't going to update it, maybe
> > you'd be willing to take this package over?
>
> Actually, I'm a Gentoo dev, too, and just bumped the package last week.
> However, the ebuild is not marked stable yet. That has to wait at least
> one month.
>
> mysql++-2.2.2-r1.ebuild: alpha amd64 hppa ~mips ppc sparc x86
> mysql++-2.3.2.ebuild: ~alpha ~amd64 ~hppa ~mips ~ppc ~sparc ~x86
>
> Daniel: You can use /etc/portage/package.keywords with an entry named
> "dev-db/mysql++" to install the newer version. However, your problem is
> related to missing include and library paths, which both aren't related
> to the ebuild.
>
> Greets,
> Michael
>
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>
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I was able to get it working with these two lines: g++ -c -o simple1_simple1.o -Ilib

-I/root/testcpp/sources/mysql/mysql++-2.3.2/examples
-I/usr/include/mysql -I/root/testcpp/sources/mysql/mysql++-2.3.2/lib
-g -O2 ./simple1.cpp

g++ -o simple1_test simple1_simple1.o
-L/root/testcpp/sources/mysql/mysql++-2.3.2 -lz -lmysqlpp_util -lmysqlclient -lmysqlpp -lz

However, I still need to update to the newer install anyway to make it easier to use in the future.
On a side note, it would be nice to have better documentation in the example files themselves. I had a tough time getting started with the new classes, especially trying to figure out how mysql++ selects the database, which I later found out was in util.h, but again, there's not much commenting. I'm a learn-by-example not a learn-by-reference kind of person, and the mysql++ documentation is completely learn-by-reference.

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Received on Tue Oct 23 14:06:54 2007