Trying to build mysql-connector-cpp on Windows - c++

I want to be able to build mysql-connector/c++ applications in debug mode (VS2k17), and understand the only way I can do that is to first build mysql-connector-cpp from source on my computer (Windows 10/64bit). I tried the following:
cmake . -DWITH_SSL=C:\Users\Rawb\source\libraries\OpenSSL-Win64
and it looks to complete successfully ...
Install location: C:/Users/Rawb/MySQL/MySQL Connector C++ 8.0
Connector libraries will be installed at: lib
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: C:/Users/Rawb/source/repos/mcc2/mysql-connector-cpp
but when I run the following cmake build ...
cmake --build . --config
it fails with this output ...
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'ssleay32.lib' [C:\Users\Rawb\source\repos\mcc2\mysql-connector-cpp\connector.vcxproj]
Done Building Project "C:\Users\Rawb\source\repos\mcc2\mysql-connector-cpp\connector.vcxproj" (default targets) -- FAILED.
Done Building Project "C:\Users\Rawb\source\repos\mcc2\mysql-connector-cpp\ALL_BUILD.vcxproj" (default targets) -- FAILED.
Build FAILED.
"C:\Users\Rawb\source\repos\mcc2\mysql-connector-cpp\ALL_BUILD.vcxproj" (default target) (1) ->
"C:\Users\Rawb\source\repos\mcc2\mysql-connector-cpp\connector.vcxproj" (default target) (10) ->
(Link target) ->
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'ssleay32.lib' [C:\Users\Rawb\source\repos\mcc2\mysql-connector-cpp\connector.vcxproj]
0 Warning(s)
1 Error(s)
Time Elapsed 00:00:14.57
What might I be doing wrong? Do I just need to place the ssleay32.lib file somewhere? I do have a copy of it but not sure how it should be included. Or is it more complex? I.e. Do I need to build Open SSL first on my machine as well? This is a deep rabbit hole for me, I may be in over my head haha!
NOTE: I also asked this question on reddit with no luck, so hoping someone here might know.

If you're using MSVS (any version, including MSVS 2017), then I'd suggest using "NMake" (instead of cmake). Or just create a new C/C++ library project in the MSVS IDE.
The flag you're looking for is /LIBPATH. I don't think you need "-D", but you certainly need "/LIBPATH".
Here are the MSVS linker options:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/linker-options?view=vs-2017
Finally, you might be able to do all the troubleshooting/tracing you want without actually debugging (and rebuilding) the connector code.
Here's how to enable tracing in the MySQL Connector:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-cpp/1.1/en/connector-cpp-debug-tracing.html
Please let me know if this helps.

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platformio No such file or directory problem

So I wanted to create a project, but when I tried to add a simple header file (adp.h), use quick fix to add this line: "${workspaceFolder}/lib/boot/headers" to c_cpp_properties.json and build the project, builder does not even find this file.
It seems strange to me, because three days earlier, when I was using this method to add header files the builder was building my older projects flawlessly.
adp.h do not contain anything
editor setup
Building message:
Processing teensy41 (platform: teensy; board: teensy41; framework: arduino)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Verbose mode can be enabled via `-v, --verbose` option
CONFIGURATION: https://docs.platformio.org/page/boards/teensy/teensy41.html
PLATFORM: Teensy (4.12.0) > Teensy 4.1
HARDWARE: IMXRT1062 600MHz, 512KB RAM, 7.75MB Flash
DEBUG: Current (jlink) External (jlink)
PACKAGES:
- framework-arduinoteensy 1.153.0 (1.53)
- toolchain-gccarmnoneeabi 1.50401.190816 (5.4.1)
LDF: Library Dependency Finder -> http://bit .ly/configure-pio-ldf
LDF Modes: Finder ~ chain, Compatibility ~ soft
Found 90 compatible libraries
Scanning dependencies...
No dependencies
Building in release mode
Compiling .pio\build\teensy41\src\main.cpp.o
Compiling .pio\build\teensy41\FrameworkArduino\AudioStream.cpp.o
Compiling .pio\build\teensy41\FrameworkArduino\Blink.cc.o
Compiling .pio\build\teensy41\FrameworkArduino\DMAChannel.cpp.o
src\main.cpp:2:17: fatal error: adp.h: No such file or directory
*************************************************************
* Looking for adp.h dependency? Check our library registry!
*
* CLI > platformio lib search "header:adp.h"
* Web > https://platformio.org/lib/search?query=header:adp.h
*
*************************************************************
compilation terminated.

Can build Mysql Connector C++ on vs 2017?

I tried to build mysql-connector-c++ from source to static library.
Referring the official spec here, I generated the Visual studio solution by the following command:
cmake -DMYSQL_DIR="E:\mysql-5.7.21-winx64" -DWITH_BOOST="E:\libs\boost_1_67_0_BUILDED" -DWITH_JDBC=ON -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" ../
Then, I opened the vs solution generated by cmake.Run build, got the two libs: mysqlcppconn8-static-mt.lib, mysqlcppconn-static-mt.lib, and copied them to my project.
When I built my project (also vs2017 version), I got the error:
mysqlcppconn-static-mt.lib(net_serv.obj) : error LNK2038: 检测到“_MSC_VER”的不匹配项: 值“1800”不匹配值“1900”(ActionProcessor.obj 中)
I am confused. They're all built in vs2017, and platform toolset are all set to "Visual Studio 2017 (v141)". I can't understand where 1800_MSC_VER has come from.
Here is what I did
Specs
Visual Studio 15, (2017)
x64
Static (.lib)
With static runtime (/MT)
Tools
CMAKE
Bison (In a folder without spaces)
Perl (ActiveState or Strawberry)
OpenSSL 1.0.2q.tar.gz
Add CMAKE, Bison and pearl to your system path
Check to see if you got all setup correctly
C:\>cmake --version
cmake version 3.9.6
C:\>bison --version
bison (GNU Bison) 2.4.1
C:\>m4 --version
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.13
C:\>perl -version
This is perl 5, version 24, subversion 3 (v5.24.3)
Step 1: Build OpenSSL 1.0.x
Note: if you want to build OpenSSL 1.1.x steps will be a bit different
Extract to: C:\mysql-8.0.15\openssl-1.0.2q
Run: x64 Native Tools Command prompt for VS 2017
cd C:\mysql-8.0.15\openssl-1.0.2q
Release
perl Configure VC-WIN64A no-shared --openssldir=.\rel64
ms\do_win64a
nmake -f ms\nt.mak
nmake -f ms\nt.mak install
Debug
nmake -f ms\nt.mak clean
perl Configure debug-VC-WIN64A no-shared --openssldir=.\dbg64
ms\do_win64a
nmake -f ms\nt.mak
nmake -f ms\nt.mak install
Step 2: Build MySQL (Yes the actual database)
Extract to: C:\mysql-8.0.15
Run: x64 Native Tools Command prompt for VS 2017
cd C:\mysql-8.0.15\
cmake . -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" ^
-DWITH_BOOST=C:/mysql-8.0.15/boost ^
-DDOWNLOAD_BOOST=1 ^
-DBUILD_CONFIG=mysql_release ^
-DWITH_SSL=C:\mysql-8.0.15\openssl-1.0.2q\rel64 ^
-DLINK_STATIC_RUNTIME_LIBRARIES=1
Copy m4.exe to C:\mysql-8.0.15\sql\ this avoids any m4.exe errors during built
Open MySQL.sln and build for release x64
Copy binary_log_funcs.h and binary_log_types.h from mysql-8.0.15\libbinlogevents\export to mysql-8.0.15\include
The library should be located at:
Static release library: C:\mysql-8.0.15\archive_output_directory\Release\mysqlclient.lib
Step 3: Build MySQL Connector C++
Copy C:\mysql-8.0.15-dbg\archive_output_directory\Debug\mysqlclient.lib
to C:\mysql-8.0.15-dbg\lib\vs14
Run CMAKE GUI
Browse to the path of the MySQL Connector Project.
Click Configure, Select Visual studio 15 2017 Win64, native compilers
Tick BUILD_STATIC
Tick STATIC_MSVCRT
TICK WITH_JDBC
remove WIN_SSL_YASL from CONFIG_VARS
WITH_SSL = C:\mysql-8.0.15\openssl-1.0.2q\rel64
WITH_BOOST= C:\mysql-8.0.15\boost\boost_1_66_0
MYSQL_DIR=C:\mysql-8.0.15
Open MySQL_CONCPP.sln build for Release x64
The library is located at:
C:\mysql-connector-c++-8.0.15\jdbc\install\lib\mysqlcppconn-static-mt.lib
C:\mysql-connector-c++-8.0.15\Release\mysqlcppconn8-static-mt.lib
Step 4: Test it
Note: This test is for the JDBC style API. If you are not maintaining an existing application, use the new xdevapi API.
Create a new project and put the following in main.cpp
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <Windows.h>
#define STATIC_CONCPP
#define CONCPP_BUILD_STATIC
#define CPPCONN_PUBLIC_FUNC
#include <driver.h>
#include <connection.h>
#include <statement.h>
#include <exception.h>
sql::Driver *mDriver;
sql::Connection *mConnection;
int main() {
mDriver = get_driver_instance(); //or use: new MySQL_Driver()
try {
mConnection = mDriver->connect("host", "username", "password");
mConnection->close();
}catch(sql::SQLException& ex) {
std::cout << ex.what();
}
delete mConnection;
return 0;
}
Set: Linker > Input > Additional Dependecies:
libeay32.lib;mysqlclient.lib;mysqlcppconn8-static-mt.lib;mysqlcppconn-static-mt.lib;ssleay32.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)
Set: Configuration Properties > VC++ Directories
Include Directories.
Library Directories.
I don't even know where to start explaining to be honest. Building this was a massive pain.
Before you begin to read this, please ensure you have the following:
C:\boost
C:\OpenSSL-Win32
C:\OpenSSL-Win64
Because I was writing my own "wrapper" and trying to make UNICODE work properly, I was getting weird exceptions, and I was unable to debug anything because I downloaded the latest package which is built without debug information (https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/cpp/)
This is the first time I try to build this, so I went to their Github repository and grabbed the latest "master": https://github.com/mysql/mysql-connector-cpp
BUT! This does not contain the "JDBC" sources, which is by the way the "native" connector as they call it. So I grabbed it from the branch: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-connector-cpp/tree/jdbc and then copied the files into "mysql-connector-cpp-master\jdbc".
OK. I opened "x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017" and navigated to "mysql-connector-cpp-master". At this point I still had no idea what I am doing and how to build it, all I could understand from the docs and different articles here is to run:
cmake -DWITH_JDBC=ON --build .
This started to configure things and build OK, but it stopped here:
-- Searching for static libraries with the base name(s) "mysqlclient"
CMake Error at FindMySQL.cmake:524 (message):
Could not find "mysql.h" from searching "/usr/include/mysql
/usr/local/include/mysql /opt/mysql/mysql/include
/opt/mysql/mysql/include/mysql /usr/local/mysql/include
/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql C:\Program Files/MySQL/*/include
C:/MySQL/*/include"
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:332 (INCLUDE)
OK. So what now... where is "mysql.h" ?! After searching... and searching, I found this: Missing mysql.h and trying to find mysql-devel
And I quote:
Grab the MySQL Community Server and install it on your system. It
contains a directory called include in which you find the mysql.h.
Ok, great we need more stuff. So I download: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ and run the command again.
Happy days, something happened but no libs yet. I did get however a VS 2017 solution called: "MYSQLCPPCONN.sln".
This contains VS 2017 configuration to build the library for Win32. And of course trying to build with this solution will give you A LOT of unresolved external symbols.
So I run again the cmake but with static option added:
cmake -DWITH_JDBC=ON -DBUILD_STATIC=ON --build .
This time when I open "MYSQLCPPCONN.sln" I can see another project "mysqlcppconn-static" and this builds fine without issues.
However, in my case I need x64. I just created a new configuration for x64 by copying the exiting configuration fron Win32.
So that's it, I have both Win32 and x64 "mysqlcppconn-static.lib".
Overall Conclusion at this time:
Quite hard to build, without experience you will spend some time...
time.
No proper documentation, their existing documentation is poorly
written and very confusing.
No UNICODE support, yes the projects compile as Multi-Byte
Character Set.
I will see if I can debug and find out why am I getting exceptions in the library when using this (from their documentation):
sql::ConnectOptionsMap connection_properties;
connection_properties["hostName"] = "";
connection_properties["port"] = "";
connection_properties["userName"] = "";
connection_properties["password"] = "";
connection_properties["schema"] = "";
connection_properties["OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT"] = 10;
connection_properties["CLIENT_MULTI_STATEMENTS"] = (true);
connection_properties["OPT_CHARSET_NAME"] = "utf8";
connection_properties["OPT_SET_CHARSET_NAME"] = "utf8";
I hope you can build your library with this information, and hopefully in the future it will become more easier and clear.
Good Luck.

LNK1181 error when compiling V8 engine on Win10

I'm following this guide on building V8 but I am hitting some issues on the compilation step. I am running Windows 10 x64. I am trying to compile with options to embed the engine also.
Running the following command:
ninja -C out.gn/x64.release
Gives me this error:
ninja: Entering directory `out.gn/x64.release'
[1/471] LINK mksnapshot.exe mksnapshot.exe.pdb
FAILED: mksnapshot.exe mksnapshot.exe.pdb
C:/Workspace/depot_tools/win_tools-2_7_6_bin/python/bin/python.exe ../../build/toolchain/win/tool_wrapper.py link-wrapper environment.x64 False link.exe /nologo /OUT:./mksnapshot.exe /PDB:./mksnapshot.exe.pdb #./mksnapshot.exe.rsp
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'comdlg32.lib'
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
Now I believe I have narrowed down the error to looking for the .lib files in the wrong directory. I have (had) multiple versions installed, so there were multiple folders in my Windows Kit install.
Windows Kits/10/Lib/10.0.16299.0
Windows Kits/10/Lib/10.0.15xxx.0
If I dragged and dropped the comdlg32.lib file from 10.0.16299.0 into the 10.0.15xxx.0 directory then the error changed to a LNK1181 error with a different input file. I did this a few times but I was unsure if this was going to cause issues with different versions and there was probably going to be a lot.
I uninstalled the 10.0.15xxx.0 version which left behind the folder I mentioned, so I removed that and after doing so I have started getting the LNK1181 error with a different input file (advapi32.lib I assume the very first file it can't find). This is how I came to the conclusion about the path being incorrect.
So I have tried a few things to change the path (I hoped just uninstalling the old version would fix it) such as:
Uninstalling the old version.
Going through registry entries to see if I can find an install path or something using that path, which I didn't. I did notice that there was still installation and data in the registry for the 10.0.15xxx.0 install, I might try deleting that from the registry directly as a last resort?
I have tried to explicitly set the path by setting <TargetUniversalCRTVersion>10.0.16299.0</TargetUniversalCRTVersion> in this file: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\DesignTime\CommonConfiguration\Neutral\uCRT.props
I have never used Ninja before so I tried looking for a way to set some kind of lib-path in the command but couldn't really find anything.
I looked through the python scripts being executed to try and locate something to do with the libs path but couldn't see anything.
I would be grateful for any help and suggestions. Thanks.
You can try to compile v8 using Visual Studio as explained here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/windows_build_instructions.md#using-the-visual-studio-ide
By running the following commands:
$ gn gen --ide=vs out.gn/x64.release
$ cd out.gn/x64.release
$ msbuild all.sln
You can see a full example here: https://github.com/phpv8/v8js/issues/272#issuecomment-262848754
Apparently this method is not officially supported anymore, but I had the same problem as you have and this solved the issue for me.
Note that after this I had another issue, the unit tests failed to be compiled due to a linking error, but I had the necessary libraries to use v8. So there may be deeper problem that is causing all of this that I'm missing.
Edit:
Also, you could try to set the following parameters with gn args:
visual_studio_path = "..."
visual_studio_version = "2017"
wdk_path = "..."
windows_sdk_path = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10"
To set those parameters, do:
gn args out.gn/x64.release
This will open a text editor where you can write the extra parameters you are interested in.
To see the full list of parameters you can specify:
gn args --list out.gn/x64.release
I was following this guide https://medium.com/dailyjs/how-to-build-v8-on-windows-and-not-go-mad-6347c69aacd4 and also ran into the error
LINK1181: cannot open input file 'advapi32.lib'
I'm pretty sure it was because I had the wrong versions of the Windows 10 SDK. Similar to you I had versions:
Windows Kits/10/Lib/10.0.10240.0
Windows Kits/10/Lib/10.0.16299.0
But according to https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/windows_build_instructions.md#Setting-up-Windows (Which I think is relevant) you need version 10.0.15063.0
After installing version 10.0.15063.0 (with the visual studio installer) to
Windows Kits/10/Lib/10.0.15063.0
I was able to continue with the build.

ASSIMP bulid error : "invalid option -f"

This is my first question here, and i'm not good at english, so be merciful :D
I am trying to build an ASSIMP library in Code::Blocks (MinGW compiler). I used CMake to generate C::B project (i haven't changed much apart from setting DirectX path and enabling BOOST workaround ).When i'm trying to build the project the library seems to build:
Build finished: 1 errors, 204 warnings (17 minutes, 25 seconds)
but i get an error :
=== Assimp, all ===
... (warnings)
invalid option -f
Enyone knows what seems to be the problem ?

gdbinit "no such file or directory" Eclipse c

I'm using Xming to connect to a Linux (enterprise edition) server on which I'm trying to debug a C++ project in Eclipse Galileo. The following errors occurred:
Reading symbols from ../workspace/myfile ..(no debugging symbols found) ... done.
.gdbinit : No such file or directory
Setting environment variable "LS_COLORS " to null value
(.gdbinit is on the server (in root), my account has rights)
If i try to run gmake on the same file from the terminal I get the following error :
gmake ** No rule to make target /workspace/myfile' . Stop.
//I have exported the path (including the library path), and gmake exists.
My project has 3 subprojects (proj1 , proj2 and proj 3). In order to debug proj3 I have to build projs 1 and 2 . I created make targets for projects 1 and 2, and I obtained .so files for which i made softlinks to corresponding files in my_project/libs folder.
My Eclipse debug configuration is as follows (tab order):
Main
  Project: My Project
  Build Configuration: UseActive
  C++ Application: path to my project/myproject
  Environment: path to libs on server (my user rights)
Debugger
  Debugger: gdb/mi
  (Checked) Stop startup at main
  GDB debugger: gdb
  GDB command line .gdbinit
  GDB command set: standard
  Protocol mi
Project Properties:
  Builders CDT Builder
  Scanner Configuration Builder
  C/C++ Build
  Build command gmake -k
Behaviour
  build incremental build : all ( sometimes i get the error no rule for make all)
  Clean: clean
  Discovery options:
    (Checked) Automatic discovery path
    (checked) Report path detection problems
    Discovery profile GCC per project
    (checked ) Enable build output
    Compile invocation comand gcc
    Toolchain
    No toolchain
    Correct builder GNU make builder
This Eclipse debug configuration works on another account (on the same server using the same Eclipse). The gdbinit and gmake files are on the server and work, I'm not supposed to update the versions (this was one solution I found online).
Has anyone seen this error before? Does anyone have a clue what I'm doing wrong?