This is the mail archive of the cygwin-apps@cygwin.com mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

mysql server out of the list


Looks like the MySQL server is not doable due to the way Cygwin threads
are implemented, according to the authors.. Only 3 packages then.
- Stephan



Kaj Arnö writes:
> Stephan, 
> 
> As opposed to a number of other products with a Unix background, MySQL
> already works well under Windows without any cygwin. Interfacing MySQL
> with cygwin is thus not needed; performance would deteriorate, and a port
> would likely incur problems with threads.
> 
> However, the mysql command line interface could be ported to cygwin; it
> might even be that this has already been done.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kaj
> 

Few additional comments to Kaj's excellent message.

Kaj is right on all accounts. And yes, our client has been ported with
Cygwin, and is a part of every Win32 distro, under the name of
mysqlc.exe. 

Our GUI client, mysqlgui is built on Win32 only with CygWin.

Regarding a server, as CygWin does not support properly threads on
Win32, it is not doable. This is not important, as VC++, which we use
for building MySQL for Win32,  still makes 10% faster code then latest
CygWin.

-- 
Regards,
   __  ___     ___ ____  __
  /  |/  /_ __/ __/ __ \/ /    Mr. Sinisa Milivojevic <sinisa@mysql.com>
 / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__   MySQL AB, Fulltime Developer
/_/  /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/   Larnaca, Cyprus
       <___/   www.mysql.com



-- 
Stephan Erickson
Mufassa Corporation - http://www.mufassa.com
Effortless E-Commerce Solutions for Small Business.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]