Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector

Hi,
Could somebody please give me info about where to get the appropriate source-code
and a bit of "how-to" regarding building the connector for 3.4.3? I will give it
a try.
Regards
Heinrich

On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:25:40 +0200, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi :)
> After 1 person has built it for their system can the built package be uploaded somewhere for other 
> people to use?  If so could it be uploaded to the new LO Extensions&templates site?
> How generic are builds?  Would it cover the entire family (Ubuntu, Mint, Trisquel etc), just 
> Debian, one particular release of Debian, or just the specific machine?
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> --- On Tue, 20/9/11, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011, 10:42
>
> Le 20/09/11 08:10, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> > Hi Snip,
> > I suppose the fact that I use Debian-Wheezy (next after Squeeze) on a
> > 32-bit system might be the reason. Seeing as I don't really have the
> > time to do more research I suppose I will just have to live with
> > ODBC (or even JDBC  :() till somebody comes up with a solution.
> > Regards
>
> The solution is to rebuild the connector for all combinations of OS/arch
> from source. That is how I got my Mac OSX version of the connector
> running. None of the devs at LO are building the connector, it is an
> option in the configure switch that must be activated specifically.
> Possibly, and I say just possibly, the Linux distribs will rebuild it
> with their next updates to LO, but I have no idea who deals with that on
> each distrib. Same goes for Windows (32/64). If no one complains about
> that to the Linux port distrib maintainers, then nothing will get done,
> that's for sure.
>
> Additionally, if no one complains about it on the developer list here,
> or opens a bug report for it, then nothing will happen either. Even if
> someone complains about it, you might well get an answer back of the ilk
> "the source is available, build it yourself", which granted, is not
> particularly useful/helpful when one is a mere "consumer" of the product.
>
>
>
> Alex


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