Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3BB6E092.AAE8CAE5@wapme-systems.de> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:06:26 +0200 From: Stipe Tolj Organization: Wapme Systems AG X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de]C-CCK-MCD QXW0322b (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Hoffman , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Mysql References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wapme Systems AG Münsterstr. 248 40470 Düsseldorf Tel: +49-211-74845-0 Fax: +49-211-74845-299 E-Mail: info@wapme-systems.de Internet: http://www.wapme-systems.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- wapme.net - wherever you are -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/