On 4 January 2012 12:33, Malvin wrote: > Is there any other components need installing so that it will connect > properly other than libmysql.dll,
Under Windows, that should be all that you need. Under Linux you would normally need to install the xxx-dev package where xxx is the database library (mysql, firebird, postgresql etc). > and also i've heard of TMySQL, what is > that? and is there any other alternatives? I don't use MySQL at all, so can't really comment on that. I solely use Firebird for my commercial work. I also don't use database components directly, instead I use tiOPF - an object persistence framework which supports multiple database backends. This allows me to concentrate on business objects and business logic, and the tiOPF framework takes care of the loading, saving and transaction support for me. I primarily use the SqlDB database backend (included with FPC) via tiOPF, but can easily change to FBLib via a single compiler directive change and a recompile too. tiOPF is also documented on the FPC wiki. Or visit http://www.tiopf.com for more details if you want. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
