[fpc-pascal] MySQL5

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried connecting to a mysql 5.5 database and used the fpc unit mysql51.
> There are only examples for 3 and 4, so I started with testdb4.pp and
> adapted it.
> It turned out that the MYSQL record is missing some new fields, so the
> mysql_init overwrites the memory behind.
> After adding some dummy bytes at the end it worked nice.
>
> Is there a better way?

Yes, convert the mysql 5.5. headers. Or adapt the 5.1 headers to match the
5.5 specs.

That is how we bring it up-to-date whenever a new MySQL version appears.

Michael.