[Gambas-user] mysql question (about drivers) PROBLEM SOLVED

[Bob Turney]

No need to examine the strace.  I removed MySQL ver 5 and installed ver
4.1.  Now the Database example works perfectly! 

Problem solved.

Thanks to everyone for the help,
-Bob


> >> the Gambas database component".  I am running version
> >> 5.0.17-standard of MySQL (Community edition).
> > I don't know, it should work. Maybe there is a problem in the
> > package... You get this error message if the file
> > 'gb.db.mysql.so' is missing. This file must be placed with
> > other gambas components.
> 
> Will gb.db.mysql work with MySQL 5.0?  I know I've only ever 
> built it against 4.x....
> 
> Rob


On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 20:04 +0100, Benoit Minisini wrote:

> On Saturday 25 February 2006 18:33, Bob Turney wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 18:10 +0100, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > > On Saturday 25 February 2006 16:39, Bob Turney wrote:
> > > > This is my first post to the group.  Thank you for making this forum
> > > > available!
> > > >
> > > > I have written engineering software with VB5-6 for many years and still
> > > > do at work.  But, at home I switched over about a year ago to Linux
> > > > (SuSE 9.3, KDE 3.4.0 Level "b").  Finding out about Gambas was one of
> > > > the best surprises of my switch to Linux!
> > > >
> > > > My question is why do I get the following error: "Cannot find driver
> > > > for database: mysql" when I run the Database example program included
> > > > with the Gambas package?  I am using Gambas 1.0.11 and I have installed
> > > > gambas-gb-db-mysql (1.0.11-0.gbv.1) described as "The MySQL driver for
> > > > the Gambas database component".  I am running version 5.0.17-standard
> > > > of MySQL (Community edition).
> > > >
> > > > Thank you very much,
> > > > Bob
> > >
> > > I don't know, it should work. Maybe there is a problem in the package...
> > > You get this error message if the file 'gb.db.mysql.so' is missing. This
> > > file must be placed with other gambas components.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> >
> > It doesn't look like I have gb.db.mysql.so unless you meant
> > lib.gb.db.mysql.so?
> > Here's what I found:
> >
> > linux:/home/rat # locate gb.db.mysql.so
> >
> > /usr/lib/gambas/lib.gb.db.mysql.so
> > /usr/lib/gambas/lib.gb.db.mysql.so.0
> > /usr/lib/gambas/lib.gb.db.mysql.so.0.0.0
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bob
> 
> Yes, in the stable version, there is the 'lib' prefix... So it should work, 
> very strange... Can you send me the output of 'strace' applied to the 
> database example until you get the 'Cannot find database driver' error 
> message?
> 
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