[fpc-pascal] MySQL 5.7 and FreePascal

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2016, Lars wrote:

> On Sat, November 19, 2016 12:05 pm, Terry A. Haimann wrote:
>> Is it possible to connect to MySQL 5.7 using TSQLConnection or will  I
>> have to downgrade my MySQL Version?  I have FreePascal 3.0.0 which appears
>> to be the most current version.  I have it on a Ubuntu  Linux 16.10 X86-64
>> system.
>
>
> You probably have to go into the fpc unit source code and see which
> version of mysql it links against, if any comments in the file. Or someone
> may know which mysql it is linked against off the top of their head

It depends. MySQL 5.7 is supported in the mysql57dyn.pp unit, but I am not
sure it is included in Lazarus 1.6.

Michael.