Installing MySQL on Win95/98

[Stephen]

Has anybody at FutureQuest actually gone to the trouble of doing this? I've taken a quick look at the mysql site and it looks as if this is possible, but before I get lost in the maze of information there I wanted to query you guys first. How much trouble is it to get MySQL running on a Win32 platform? Does anyone know?

[Terra]

I plan on installing MySQL (syncronized) local on my spunky (Linux) server at home...

For windows, I will be using Access and ODBC methadologies...

The Windows version of MySQL costs $$$$$, the Linux version is free... http://www.aota.net/ubb/wink.gif

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Terra
--Linux and Windows interoperability, what a concept... Too bad Windows is the one that need to budge, because Linux waits for no one--
FutureQuest

[Stephen]

Yeah, $$$$. I skimmed over the licensing agreements and figured I might be able to download the Windows version of MySQL and use it for developmental purposes for free (is that what they mean by 'free for internal use...') as long as I don't use the resulting software in a commercial environment (like on an NT server). I could be wrong on this.

I should get around to trying to install Linux and moving off Windows 95 so I don't have these problems. As is, I try to do my CGI programming on a Xitami web server running under Win95 and cross my fingers that it all works when I upload onto the FQ server. So far I've had minimal problems and was hoping the approach would work when incorporating MySQL (about which I still have to learn). I'm still hoping this. No need to lecture me about the pros of going over to Linux. I'm won over on the concept, but not the practicality of actually making the move. Not yet. I'm too afraid of breaking the fragile working environment that I currently have.

I guess the first thing I'll try is to get the wwwthreads scripts working since this uses MySQL in a perl environment (no php for me--it's too new for me to get excited about) and go from there. I don't want to use wwwthreads directly, but studying a working example is the best way I know to pick this stuff up.

[Stephen]

After failing to find the appropriate perl port I'm posting again...

Does anyone who uses Win95 have a perl port which includes the DBD::mysql driver routine in it. I attempted to download a port from www.mysql.com but that didn't seem to do the trick. I need the binaries--for the entire port--as I don't have a c compiler on my machine (yeah, really lame I know)...

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

NEVER MIND: I had previously downloaded the perl binaries from mysql.he.net but not got them to work. The trouble was the perl executable was Perl95.exe and not Perl.exe. It seems to be working now, although I haven't thoroughly tested it with the mysql drivers yet...

[This message has been edited by Stephen (edited 03-27-99).]