Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB 5.5.30 now available

Hi Alex,
A day or two ago I saw a MySQL-Native-Connector alpha version listed under
base extensions. Would be super to be able to try it out. Is there a way
to get involved in some testing?
Regards
H. S.

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:18:47 +0100, Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 12/03/2013 21:16, Tom Davies a écrit :
>
> Hi Tom,
> > Apparently it also doesn't work on Macs although i'm entirely certain how far that goes.  For 
> > example could Base as a front-end on a Mac read MariaDb as a back-end on a Debian server.  
> > Presumably it does but i don't know of anyone that has tried it.
>
> Last time I looked, the mariadb server and client programs and libraries
> were only available via the ports installation system. This is a no go
> area for me on my OSX server, which is the machine I was using to build
> LO and the native mysql connector. The ports system on my Macbook
> screwed up the LO build by installing libraries that conflict with the
> ones used by the LO build process, so I stopped using my Macbook for
> building LO ages ago.
>
> As far as I know, there are no pre-compiled MariaDB binaries for OSX.
>
> Irrespective of the above, the changes being made in the mysql connector
> code should allow the connector to be built on all platforms where LO
> can be built, even if libmariadb is not already present. If the builder
> wants to use a system-present libmariadb, then there is also a compile
> time option to enable that. Otherwise, the aim is for the libmariadb
> source code to be downloaded at compile time. This currently works on
> Linux (from my build log on a 32bit OS), but I am still awaiting the
> results of test compilations on my OSX server.
>
> Alex


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