[fpc-pascal] freepascal + mysql5 + osx

[Harald Lapp]

2008/6/22 Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>:
>
> 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.

this solved my problem -- thanks very much!!

harald