OSX/Quartz build: how to enable mysql support ?

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 22 April 2010, John Ralls wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > That worked with some minor tweaking. I'll report my actions here for
> > future reference:
> >
> > * First I added these two lines to .jhbuildrc-custom:
> > mysql_dir = os.path.join(os.environ["HOME"], "Library/mysql")
> > append_autogenargs("libdbi-drivers", "--with-mysql --with-mysql-incdir="
> > + mysql_dir + "/include --with-mysql-libdir=" + mysql_dir + "/lib") (the
> > second line is split up by my mail client, it should be on one line) *
> > Then it took me a while to figure out where to get the mysql headers and
> > libraries. Turns out mysql publishes them as the "MySQL C connector".
> > (look for mysql-connector-c in the download section on the mysql website)
> > * Next I had to modify the directory layout of this download: the dbi
> > driver expects to find the headers in include/mysql, while they come in
> > include/ by default. A simple move of the headers to this subdirectory
> > fixed it * Finally before running gnucash, the path the myql-connector
> > lib directory has to be added to DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. For simplicity, I
> > chose to export it on the command line:
> > export DYLD_LIBARY_PATH=~/Library/mysql/lib
> > <run gnucash>
> >
> > I may add a cleaned up version of this info to the wiki, so others that
> > wish to experiment with gnucash/mysql on OS X can repeat the steps.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, are there any plans to include mysql/postgres
> > integration in the jhbuild system (as an optional module perhaps) ?
> 
> It sounds like the mysql stuff is pre-compiled. Jhbuild doesn't work with
>  that. If there's a source option and you write the modules for it, I'll
>  add them to gnucash.modules.
> 
Yes, for this test I took the easy route. My experience with jhbuild is very 
limited until now.

The sources for for the mysql libs are also available though, so I may give it 
a try later to create a module.

Geert