First, let me clarify everything here is MariaDB - nothing actually involving the MySQL code.
In Arch Linux, I'm running a MariaDB server and client. I installed the mariadb package, built from the source at: http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/mariadb/mariadb-10.1.18/source/mariadb-10.1.18.tar.gz This provides: - /usr/include/mysql/* (141 .h files) - /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so - /usr/lib/libmysqld.so (I see this is for embedding a MariaDB server in an application which I don't need, so I'll ignore that for the rest of my message.) I have C++ applications that will access MariaDB, and I thought I also needed mariadb-connector-c, so I built tag v2.3.1 at https://github.com/MariaDB/mariadb-connector-c This provides: - /usr/include/mariadb/* (40 .h files) - /usr/lib/mariadb/libmariadbclient.a - /usr/lib/mariadb/libmariadb.so Q1 - What's the purpose and difference between libmysqlclient, libmariadbclient, and libmariadb? (Ignoring difference shared vs static library.) Q2 - /usr/include/mysql/mysql.h (from http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/mariadb/mariadb-10.1.18/source/mariadb-10.1.18.tar.gz) and /usr/include/mariadb/mysql.h (from tag v2.3.1 at from https://github.com/MariaDB/mariadb-connector-c) Are quite similar and have a lot of identical code, but are also way different. I ran into that /usr/include/mysql/mysql.h defines: const char * STDCALL mysql_error(MYSQL * myql); But /usr/include/mariadb/mysql.h defines: char * STDCALL mysql_error(MYSQL *mysql); (Note the missing const on the return value.) I got very confused at this point why the same function is declared in each, why they're different, which I should be using, etc. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
