On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Nataraj S Narayan wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I was starting off with Firebird for Lazarus. But now I need to get MySql
> access from Lazarus to convert my legacy windows msaccess apps . Which package
> is best? Sqlite or zeos  components? Or just go for 'direct' access w/o
> compos?

It depends on the version of MySQL you are using. If it's higher than 4.0,
Zeos doesn't work with it (at least not the alpha 6.5), not even in Delphi.

SQLDB (not sqlite, that is another beast) does work with 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0.

Michael.
> 
> 
> regards
> Nataraj
> 
> Matt Henley wrote:
> 
> > Just a note.. the group that I am working with managed to get zeoslib
> > working with lazarus... we are using firebird (2.0 beta) and I can
> > confirm that it works for a test database... there are some strange
> > things that you have to do (lazarus cant find a source file thats in
> > the paths in the compiler options...), but at least on windows we
> > managed to get it working.. i have a procedure if you would like it.
> > 
> > On 3/16/06, Joost van der Sluis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > > I'm now attempting to get zeoslib working.  After many attempts
> > > > (lots of
> > > > errors due to sqlite) I got it to compile.  But now I can't get it
> > > > to install
> > > > as a package.  The first thing is Lazarus can not support dynamic
> > > > packages.
> > > > Then it starts compiling/rebuilding lazarus  it fails with:
> > > > Identifer not found ExtractOptionsFromDPR
> > > > opens DelphiProjectLaz.pas
> > > > // TODO: get all compiler options from .lpr
> > > > Result:=ExtractOptionsFromDPR(LPRCode,Project1);
> > > > if Result<>mrOk then exit;
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > ATM ZEOS doesn't work very well with Lazarus. This is more a ZEOS
> > > issue,
> > > then an fpc-issue. (except for fpc-bug 4510)
> > > 
> > > And although the problems are easily fixable, they seems to be to hard
> > > for the ZEOS team.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Met vriendelijke groeten,
> > > 
> > > Joost van der Sluis
> > > CNOC Informatiesystemen en Netwerken
> > > http://www.cnoc.nl
> > > 
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