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Curtis Jewell | 4 Jun 2009 14:05
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An announcement and a request for assistance...

Strawberry Perl (a release of Perl, a compiler toolchain, and additional
modules for Win32 systems) is now including DBD::mysql in the modules it
installs as of July 2009 Beta 2 (the betas for the versions of
Strawberry that will get released in July - 5.10.0.6 and 5.8.9.2)

Part of the reason for this is that we want to have first class support
for open-source databases out of the box. And we're getting there.

In that light, I have a few requests for the good people here:

1) If you can test it with your real-life scripts that use DBD::mysql,
it'd be appreciated. Report back any bugs.  I ran the tests that were
included with DBD::mysql 4.005 on my own system whem I was adding it in,
and they passed, but that only makes me so confident. (IIRC, I tested it
against the 5.1.34-community version, available as
mysql-5.1.34-win32.msi - not the Windows Essentials build of that
version.)

I have to admit, I don't use MySQL myself.

2) Right now, the version of DBD::mysql that's included is 4.005 -
because that's what was on the uwinnipeg repository as a PPM that was
already built.  (I converted the PPM to a PAR file, took out the html
files, and installed that.) I found some directions in a few different
places for building DBD::mysql, but I could never get version 4.011 to
run the "make"step  - (it's actually "dmake", and that's provided as
part of the provided compiler toolchain) successfully.  Again, note the
version of MySQL stated above. Assistance would be welcome in getting a
current version of DBD::mysql to build on my system, because what I can
build or install successfully is what will get installed in Strawberry.
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Curtis Jewell | 4 Jun 2009 14:13
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Re: An announcement and a request for assistance...

On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:05 -0600, "Curtis Jewell"
<lists.perl.DBD-mysql <at> csjewell.fastmail.us> wrote:
> Strawberry Perl (a release of Perl, a compiler toolchain, and additional
> modules for Win32 systems) is now including DBD::mysql in the modules it
> installs as of July 2009 Beta 2 (the betas for the versions of
> Strawberry that will get released in July - 5.10.0.6 and 5.8.9.2)

I forgot to mention where to get it -
http://csjewell.comyr.com/perl/strawberryperlbeta.html is the location
to go to.

--Curtis

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Curtis Jewell | 13 Jun 2009 08:19
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Problems with testing DBD::mysql

I finally found a reasonably easy way to build DBD::mysql on Strawberry
Perl [you copy libmysql.lib -> libmysql.a and zlib.lib -> libzlib.a,
then run RKOBES's mysql_config_win32.pl script with
s/-lmysqlclient/-lmysql/ and then perl Makefile.PL && dmake runs
easily.] - I'll try and send a patch to the Makefile.PL when I get a
chance (probably within the next few days), but I'm running into a
failing test when I try to install anything above 4.006. 

[I have an anonymous-user set up on the database - I know this isn't
normal, I'm just getting the module to test correctly.]

An attempt to run a compile and test with 4.011 is shown below, along
with the versions of mysql and perl being used:

C:\DBD-mysql-4.011>perl Makefile.PL
Unknown option: testdb
Unknown option: testhost
Unknown option: testuser
Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"USER"} in concatenation (.) or string
at Makefi
le.PL line 491, <PIPE> line 24.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at Makefile.PL
line 49
1, <PIPE> line 24.

PLEASE NOTE:

For 'make test' to run properly, you must ensure that the
database user '' can connect to your MySQL server
and has the proper privileges that these tests require such
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Patrick Galbraith | 19 Jun 2009 20:37
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DBD::mysql 4.012 Released!

Hi all!

I'm pleased to announce a release of DBD::mysql 4.012!

This release includes several fixes and modifications (per ChangeLog):

* Patch to bind_type_guessing from Craigslist, Thanks to Chris! 
Happiness is no quoted numbers. Fixed ChopBlanks to work with 
bind_type_guessing

* Patch for win32 strawberry build Thanks to Curtis Jewell! Windows 
needs love

* Patch for auto-reconnect to set active flag Thanks to Doug Fischer!

* Fixed bug 32464 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32464.
See also:  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=46308

Add connection flag mysql_no_autocommit_cmd which users of MySQL Proxy 
can use to prevent 'set autocommit=#' from being issued by the driver. 
'perldoc DBD::mysql' to see how to use this new flag. Thanks to Russell 
Glaue for reporting this!

* Added bind-type-guessing options to Makefile.PL so the entire test 
suite can be run with bind_type_guessing set.

A little more info on the changes:

    * bind_type_guessing - this is a database handle attribute you can 
set (see perldoc DBD::mysql) by setting $dbh->{bind_type_guessing} = 1.
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