Cannot connect to databases, Driver not loaded error.

SGaist

Did you build your plugin for both debug and release ?

Homer2000

need dynamic lib for mysql. For linux it's libmysqlclient.so.16 or libmysqlclient.so.18 for your target platform.

mleoni

@SGaist I built just one, with the default configuration. I will check which one when I get back to my home pc. What difference does it make? Could it work with one but not the other one?

@Homer2000 I am using a shared library, except my distribution [like many others] now uses MariaDB as a replacement for MySQL, so I link to libmariadb.so or something similar

Homer2000

@mleoni said in Cannot connect to databases, Driver not loaded error.:

MariaDB

MariaDB use libqsqlmysql plugin?

SGaist

@Homer2000 No, by default the Qt MySQL plugin links against the MySQL client libraries.

You can build it to use MariaDB though.

mleoni

Ok, I found out what I was doing wrong.
The code that I was using is

QSqlDatabase db;
db.addDatabase("QMYSQL");

and it was giving me the error above, whereas the correct way to do it is

QSqlDatabase db;
db = QSqlDatabase::addDatabase("QMYSQL");

and with this code it works fine.

I don't know why this is the case, I guess today I just learnt something new on Qt, thanks for the help everyboody!

Christian Ehrlicher

@mleoni said in Cannot connect to databases, Driver not loaded error.:

I don't know why this is the case,

Because QSqlDatabase::addDatabase() is a static function - no Qt magic here.

mleoni

I see, so my mistake was letting the returned value go lost. Thanks for clarifying this!

SGaist

Please take the time to read the QSqlDatabase documentation. It shows how to use it properly.

mleoni

Thanks for the reference!