Can't build on Windows 7 w/VS2005
Posted by: Doug Azzarito
Date: March 28, 2012 03:52PM

I have some MySQL code in C that I have been developing on Ubuntu with GCC, and I was asked for a Windows version. I have a Windows maching running Win7 64-bit, with VS2005 installed (including the 64-bit tools).

I installed the MySQL Connector/C 6.02 (the one for 64-bit VS2005), and followed the instructions for setting up a VS project for building code with it. I get a bunch of unresolved externals when I try to link (_mysql_close@4, _mysql_free_result@4, _mysql_fetch_row@4...).

I searched this forum, and saw a few posts that said building your own library sometimes helps (even though there is a release specific to my compiler width and version). I downloaded the source, and when I tried to build, I get errors like:

Cannot copy output executable '' to destination specified by COPY_FILE:

It looks like it can't find cmTryCompileExec.exe. I am using CMake version 2.8.

I found one post on this forum that suggested a way to get unresolved externals fixed, but it points to MySQL Server includes and libraries. I thought the whole reason for Connector/C is so you don't have to install MySQL Server. According to the docs, "There is no need to compile or install the MySQL Server package if you only need the client library." I installed the server on my machine to try, but it didn't solve the problem. Does anyone have a solution?

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