Need OMF MySQL lib that actually f^*&^ works...

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
> news:j0b4r1$icb$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Anyone have a known-working Windows OMF library for MySQL? Static or 
>> dynamic, I don't care. I've tried fucking everything and I can't get the 
>> dang thing to work. Static was a total no-go. With dynamic, using implib 
>> I got it to link, but calling any of it resulted in an Access Violation. 
>> Using coffimplib, best I could do had one linker error, a missing 
>> "_mysql_real_connect". This was all with "Connector/C" v6.0.2. I'd have 
>> tried an older version, 5.x, but 6.0.2 is the only version that seems to 
>> still exist.
>>
>
> Goddamnnit, I think the whole problem was that stupid linking with a C 
> "long" issue...
>
> The function mysql_real_connect takes a long, and it's the only part of 
> the MySQL interface being used that takes a long. No idea why it still 
> worked on Linux, but fingers crossed that a DDMD-style C bridge will fix 
> it...
>

Ok, yea, it was a C long issue with the bindings, although I ended up not 
needing a C bridge. Apparently, C's "int" and "long" are both 32-bit on a 
32-bit system (Also apparent: it's been a very long time since I used 
C/C++...) Screwy C...

Once I changed the "ulong" param in the D binding for mysql_real_connect to 
"uint", the instructions at ( 
http://www.wikiservice.at/d/wiki.cgi?DatabaseBindings#MySQL ) suddenly 
worked like a charm. I'm now connected to my MySQL DB from D. Whoohoo!

I still have no idea why it seemed to work fine on Linux without that 
change, but at the moment I don't particularly give a crap...