Hi, james! On Oct 03, james harvey wrote: > 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
No, you doesn't. See below > 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.) libmariadbclient.a is a static version of libmariadb.so. both are the MariaDB Connector/C - new LGPL MariaDB/MySQL client library, see https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-connector-c/ libmysqlclient is the old GPL MariaDB/MySQL client library. It's no longer developed, all new features go into MariaDB Connector/C. libmysqlclient is removed in 10.2 Either way, you need either libmysqlclient or libmariadb, you should not link with both at the same time. > 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. Use either one, but not both. Regards, Sergei Chief Architect MariaDB and [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
