Re: my_global.h, my_getopt.h, etc missing from MySQL 8 devel

[Georgi Kodinov]

These two headers (and the corresponding libmysql symbols) were never really part of the published C API. In 8.0 we've taken steps to limit the symbols exposed by libmysqlclient to avoid namespace pollution.

my_getopt.h is an internal header that relates to parsing the command line in the client tools. I would suggest using more standard tools like e.g. getopt() or boost instead.

my_global.h was a amalgamation of utility macros for C API that was split into its parts in 8.0.

I would recommend (as an iterim step) try compiling with mysql-5.7. And then work out why you need these internal headers in your program and replace the usage.

Georgi "Joro" Kodinov
MySQL SrvGen team lead
Plovdiv, Bulgaria