You should only need to install Connector/ODBC from source on Windows if you want to change or modify the source or installation. If you are unsure whether to install from source, please use the binary installation detailed in Section 20.1.3.1, “Installing Connector/ODBC from a Binary Distribution on Windows”.
Installing Connector/ODBC from source on Windows requires a number of different tools and packages:
MDAC, Microsoft Data Access SDK from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/110093.
Suitable C compiler, such as Microsoft Visual C++ or the C compiler included with Microsoft Visual Studio.
Compatible make
tool. Microsoft's
nmake
is used in the examples in this
section.
MySQL client libraries and include files from MySQL 4.0.0 or higher. (Preferably MySQL 4.0.16 or higher). This is required because Connector/ODBC uses new calls and structures that exist only starting from this version of the library. To get the client libraries and include files, visit http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/.
Connector/ODBC source distributions include
Makefiles
that require the
nmake or other make
utility. In the distribution, you can find
Makefile
for building the release version
and Makefile_debug
for building debugging
versions of the driver libraries and DLLs.
To build the driver, use this procedure:
Download and extract the sources to a folder, then change
directory into that folder. The following command assumes
the folder is named myodbc3-src
:
C:\> cd myodbc3-src
Edit Makefile
to specify the correct
path for the MySQL client libraries and header files. Then
use the following commands to build and install the
release version:
C:\>nmake -f Makefile
C:\>nmake -f Makefile install
nmake -f Makefile builds the release
version of the driver and places the binaries in
subdirectory called Release
.
nmake -f Makefile install installs
(copies) the driver DLLs and libraries
(myodbc3.dll
,
myodbc3.lib
) to your system
directory.
To build the debug version, use
Makefile_Debug
rather than
Makefile
, as shown below:
C:\>nmake -f Makefile_debug
C:\>nmake -f Makefile_debug install
You can clean and rebuild the driver by using:
C:\>nmake -f Makefile clean
C:\>nmake -f Makefile install
Make sure to specify the correct MySQL client libraries
and header files path in the Makefiles (set the
MYSQL_LIB_PATH
and
MYSQL_INCLUDE_PATH
variables). The
default header file path is assumed to be
C:\mysql\include
. The default
library path is assumed to be
C:\mysql\lib\opt
for release DLLs
and C:\mysql\lib\debug
for debug
versions.
For the complete usage of nmake, visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vcce4/html/evgrfRunningNMAKE.asp.
If you are using the Subversion tree for compiling, all
Windows-specific Makefiles
are
named as Win_Makefile*
.
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