Re: cygwinb19 and mysql-win32

[Li-Kai Liu <news at likai dot net>]

yeah, i see cygwinb19.dll in the /lib of mysql win32 distribution as 
well. i don't think they really intended to use cygwin though. their 
win32 build should run fine without cygwin. i suspect they've only 
included the library for some weird sense of completeness but it's 
totally non-essential. suppose someone did compile a cygwin mysql 
client, but they should have cygwin as well, so it doesn't make sense to 
have cygwinb19.dll distributed with mysql win32 binary at all. i 
personally just ignored it. you might contact the mysql team to see what 
they have to say about this ...

note in their win32 download page: 
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/os-win32.html

they do have a few cygwin binaries listed.

i have not checked the source for mysql, but i don't think they're 
distributing source for cygwin. they might not even have compiled their 
own cygwin at all. it might be a legacy leftover file that nobody 
remembers where it is from and why it is there.

liulk

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>>And their manuals only reference is that to use the mysqlc (mysql client
>>linked to cygwin) one must copy the cygwin b19.dll to the windows system
>>directory.
>>
>>Oh, and there is no source for cygwinb19.dll in the binary distribution,
>>nor any specific notice that cygwinb19.dll as included has it's source
>>available in their source tarball. (there is the usual COPYING file for
>>the whole thing though).
>>
>>Hmmmm. AAARRRRGGGGHHH. Mysql isn't exactly a low profile open-source
>>project. I haven't downloaded their 15 MB .zip source file to check
>>whether the cygwin dll source is included or not - which is why I've
>>mailed here in case someone else has and can confirm or deny. Their unix
>>source file is ~11Mb, and I suspect that the 4Mb difference is more than
>>just tar.gz getting better compression.
>>
>>So there are two issues here:
>>1) Why are they distributing b19?!?!?!??!
>>2) Are they in fact distributing the source.
>>
>
>I'd be interested in getting clarification on this, too.
>
>cgf
>
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