MySQL-Native Connector for 4.0

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#1

Hello, Has somebody compiled/tested the native connector under 4.0?
For me it does work using it with 4.0.0.1, build ID:527...., running
under Debian-Wheezy. It does NOT work under Linux-Mint-Maya or Windows/Vista
(I cannot activate it, keep getting the message
loading component library failed:
file:///home/rainermusik/.config/libreoffice/4/user/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/luh0h0m4.tmp_/mysql-connector-ooo-1.0.1-linux-intel.oxt/mysqlc.uno.s
Regards
Heinrich

#2

Hi Heinrich,

Hello, Has somebody compiled/tested the native connector under 4.0?
For me it does work using it with 4.0.0.1, build ID:527...., running
under Debian-Wheezy. It does NOT work under Linux-Mint-Maya or
Windows/Vista

Yes, it still works for me (self-compiled from the master git repo) on :
- Linux Mint Maya 32bit (based on Precise Pangolin)
- Bodhi Linux 2.2.0 64bit
- Linux Pear 5 32bit (based on Precise Pangolin)
- Mac OSX 10.8.2

Alex

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
Is it worth learning how to compile from source in order to get one tailored to your system?  It would mean you don't have to wait for someone else to get around to it.  On the other hand i gather it ties-up a desktop machine for quite a while so if you don't have access to several machines then it might be a pain.

I keep being told that compiling is "really not difficult" but it still scares me. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
Is it worth learning how to compile from source in order to get one tailored to your system?

IMHO, yes, it is an interesting, if sometimes rather frustrating,
experience for a non-developer/casual software builder.

On the other hand i gather it ties-up a desktop machine for quite a
while so if you don't have access to several machines then it might be a
pain.

Building does indeed take a while, on my 4gig RAM Linux box, about 10 -
12 hours, sometimes more if there are lots of changes in the git repo.

I keep being told that compiling is "really not difficult" but it still scares me.

Nothing to be scared about. It won't trash your machine (but might make
the GUI unusable if you don't have much RAM). Patience is definitely a
virtue when it comes to building LO. It is just that when the build
fails, there's not always an obvious explanation for why, especially if
it built fine previously for several days, or even months.

Alex

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
Hmm, one of my colleagues has just left for the day leaving an Xp machine that i could try to use for this.  Unfortunately both my bosses are still here and might be a bit 'funny' about me spending time on it.  Is it fairly quick&easy to set it up to compile?  Is Xp the right OS?  I could reboot it into Ubuntu 12.04 (might be 10.04 i can never remember which is on which machine at the moment).  Heinrich was looking for an Xp build or Win7?  Note that even if i do start this it's a first time for me so i'm not expecting success. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

Hi Tom,

I would not advise attempting to build it on XP or anything Windows
unless you really know what you are doing. Building on Linux is far
easier on the whole, as everything is more or less either pre-installed,
or easy to add in the right place via the package management system.
Virtually anything based on Ubuntu 12.04 works, not sure about 10.04
though, as that is getting on a bit now and some of the library versions
will probably be too old.

Alex

#7

Alexander ,

Connector works fine for LOdev4.0 and windows XP

#8

Hi :slight_smile:
I re-found the original message.  Xp it's good to hear that Xp is fine as is Debian (and therefore possibly Ubuntu too).  I thought that to compile something for a specific platform you had to compile it on that platform.  There is a lot about this that i don't know.  Luckily i managed to dodge Vista and only have access to Xp and Win7 machines (and Ubuntu on their dual-boot). 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#9

Hi Fernand,

Connector works fine for LOdev4.0 and windows XP

Thanks for the info. Do you build it yourself, or did you get it from
the AOO project ?

Alex

#10

Hi Fernand,

Connector works fine for LOdev4.0 and windows XP

Thanks for the info. Do you build it yourself, or did you get it from
the AOO project ?

i still use a extension MySQL Connector 1.0.1 made by oracle :slight_smile:

#11

Well it is good to know that it is still working :-))

Alex

#12

I can confirm that the MySQL native connector will not install with Windows
7 64bit but gives the error message listed below by Heinrich. The
connector continued to work with LO3 versions.
regards
Mike

#13

Hello friends,
Since my main "job" (after 30 years at IBM as a systems engineer) is running a
50-piece wind band (I would love to give a sample of it in the U.S., England, etc., etc.!)
I don't have the time to do any compiles at the moment - even though I do
feel confident I could do so. I have gone back to 3.6.4 and things with the
MySQL-Native Connector work fine there.
Regards from Salzburg (looking out the window: it's snowing cats and dogs!)
Heinrich

#14

Michael , others,

  the MySQL native connector is installing and working well on LO 4.0 dev with Windows XP

but as Michael says, not on LO 4.0 rc1 with Windows 7 (LO 3.6 is working)

and also NOT on LO rc1 with Windows 8, failed to install due to some pathsettings.

the latest Connector made for OO apache fails also under LO 4.0

#15

Who is filling the issue ?

#16

Hi :slight_smile:
Looks like no-one is posting a bug-report yet.  Please whoever does please give a link to your report so that others from the list can add their comments.  It doesn't need to be a perfect bug-report as further comments from others are likely to happen quickly and each will make it better.  There is momentum here.   
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: