[fpc-pascal] freepascal + mysql5 + osx

[Florian Klaempfl]

Jonas Maebe schrieb:
> 
> On 22 Jun 2008, at 12:21, Harald Lapp wrote:
> 
>> after reading every bit of freepascal + mysql5 i could find on the
>> net, i have still some problems getting this to run on OSX. i've
>> installed mysql-5.0.45 and as i'm developing mainly with PHP and i
>> compiled PHP with mysql support on my own, everything regarding mysql
>> needed for developing with freepascal should be installed already.
>> i've tried with the example posted on this mailinglist a while ago:
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.free-pascal.general/11357
>> however, i don't get it to work -- i get error messages from the
>> linker:
> 
> Add the following to your program:
> 
> {$linklib mysql50}
> 
> The reason that this is not necessary on other platforms, is that they 
> implicitly add that based on the external declarations. This was 
> disabled for Darwin when initially porting FPC to that platform because 
> a lot of those external library declarations were wrong there. This was 
> never properly resolved later on, hence the need to still explicitly add 
> the {$linklib ...} statements for Darwin.
> 

It could be added to the mysql 5 unit, no?