Hi Daniël! > For anyone with the right permissions on github.com/perl5-dbi, I think it > would be good to disable/remove appveyor for DBD-mysql as that now always > results in failing checks for PRs and there isn't any short (or medium) term > fix for this.
I was not aware that you were only 'collaborator' on the repo and not 'admin'. I just made you admin and removed the web hooks as well. It's a pity that MySQL on Windows is this difficult again. Thanks for your efforts keeping DBD::mysql going! -- Michiel On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM Daniël van Eeden <daniel.van.ee...@myname.nl> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > In the last few years I've been trying a few times to get the latest versions > of DBD::mysql fully working on Microsoft Windows, however it now looks like > Ive hit a dead end. > > > DBD::mysql requires MySQL 8.0 (released in 2018) or newer. Strawberry Perl > was shipping with a libmysqlclient from MySQL 5.7 (which is now EOL). Newer > versions don't seem to include a libmysqlclient at all. When combining a > recent version of Strawberry Perl with a MySQL downloaded from mysql.com > things work until you try to use SSL/TLS as both MySQL and Perl include > OpenSSL, but with different versions. > > > I think DBD::mysql would work fine on Windows if both Perl and MySQL are > compiled with the same compiler and OpenSSL version. But compiling from > source isn't common on Windows and it looks like MySQL on Windows might not > support compiling with GCC. > > > While I haven't tested this, I think WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) might > be an alternative for running MySQL and Perl on a Windows machine. But as I > don't use Windows myself I don't know if this is an acceptable workaround. > > > More info on this: > > - https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/pull/384#issuecomment-2548585132 > > > For anyone with the right permissions on github.com/perl5-dbi, I think it > would be good to disable/remove appveyor for DBD-mysql as that now always > results in failing checks for PRs and there isn't any short (or medium) term > fix for this. > > > I anyone has a good suggestion about how to move forward, please let me know. > > > Daniël
