Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing MySQL Connect

Tom, Dan

The Windows Native MySQL connector 1.01 is working on LO 3.4 and LO 3.5
> Hi :)
> There is not one for Windows yet.  It would need to be built.  The ones for Mac and Gnu&LInux are 
> here
> http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/mysql-native-connector-for-mac-osx
>
> No-one with Windows has built and uploaded their one yet.  I think there are instructions on how to compile it from Source but i gather you have to compile the whole of the LibreOffice from Source at the same time.  I odn't know where to begin with that sort of thing and the only Windows i have access to is at work where i don't really have time to do things like this (even if i knew how to which i don't). 
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> --- On Mon, 6/2/12, Dan Lewis<elderdanlewis@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> From: Dan Lewis<elderdanlewis@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing MySQL Connect
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Monday, 6 February, 2012, 21:57
>
> On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 20:09 +0000, Tony Sumner wrote:
> > I hope MySQL isn't OT. I am trying to set up a MySQL database with LibreOffice
> > Base as a front-end. I have installed MySQL in Windows XP and I can create
> > tables and so forth and the next thing is to connect to MySQL. I have
> > downloaded the MySQL ODBC Connector but when I try to run it I get a
> > window for about 1ms and then it vanishes. Has anyone succeded in installing
> > this?
> >
> > Tony Sumner
>       LO has an extension: "MySQL Native Connector".  From what I have
> read on this list, this extension works better than using an ODBC or
> JDBC. You might want to download and install it instead.
>
> --Dan


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