[maemo-developers] How to use MySQL with Maemo 5?

[From: Sascha Mäkelä]

So basically I should somehow install the plugin somewhere under /madde on
the N900, right? Has anyone done this and how? I'm not that familiar with
Linux.

Thank you for your help,
Sascha

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:59, Ram Kurvakat <rkmaemo at gmx.com> wrote:

>  sorry I didnt read the message below your error :p
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> please ignore my message, will post when I get a chance to see it in
> detail.
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> I've used sqllite on Linux and its just a matter of installing the plugins
> required for dev/runtime env.
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: Ram Kurvakat
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> Sent: 03/30/10 07:52 AM
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> To: Sascha Mäkelä, maemo-developers
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> Subject: Re: How to use MySQL with Maemo 5?
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> have you tried to install libqt4 mysql plugin ?
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> This should help in case you havent already seen it
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> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/sql-driver.html#qmysql
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>  <http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/sql-driver.html#qmysql>
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>  ----- Original Message -----
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> From: Sascha Mäkelä
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> Sent: 03/30/10 06:57 AM
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> To: maemo-developers
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> Subject: How to use MySQL with Maemo 5?
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>  I'm trying to retrieve data from a MySQL server. I use the following
> example code (with some slight modifications):
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> Code:
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>      QSqlDatabase db = QSqlDatabase::addDatabase("QMYSQL");      db.setHostName("bigblue");      db.setDatabaseName("flightdb");      db.setUserName("acarlson");      db.setPassword("1uTbSbAs");      bool ok = db.open();
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> But I get the following error:
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> Quote:
>  QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL driver not loaded
> QSqlDatabase: available drivers: QSQLITE
> Is MySQL even supported in Maemo or am I doing something wrong? I also
> found the following two links:
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>  http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.6/sql-driver.html
>  http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.6/install-x11.html
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> But I'm not quite sure where I should install these "drivers". Should I
> install them in my Windows computer, where I'm using MADDE and Qt Creator
> (well, actually I'm using now the Qt Creator 2.0 Technology Preview, so I'm
> not quite sure if it's using MADDE any more)? Or should I install them on
> the target N900? Or both? Or am I completely on the wrong tracks here?
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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> Cheers,
> Sascha
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