issues with building QMYSQL plugin

SGaist

You still have the stable 18 installed so you should only need to install the dev package. Ensure that is also comes from the stable repo and you should be fine.

mzimmers

I did an apt-cache show libmysqlclient-dev and it gave me 3 choices (omitted for brevity). How do I know which one I want (all different versions) and how do I make this selection?

Thanks.

SGaist

The one that is marked 5.5.54-0+deb8u1

mzimmers · The one that is marked `5.5.54-0+deb8u1`

@SGaist I believe we have lift-off! (that's American for a good thing) I now have that file, and make and make install both completed successfully. Along the way, I got rid of that weird problem with the compiler flag, too.

So, back to the original exercise of building the QMYSQL plugin...I've re-read the page and they don't really say where to find it, or how to get Creator to pick it up. (I've never used plugins before, it that isn't obvious by now.) How do I check to see that it's available to Creator?

This was a good learning experience...thanks for all the help, SGaist.

SGaist

Good !

Since you've called make install your original plugin should have been replaced by the one you just built. It will be loaded as before automatically for you but this time it should be successful.

mzimmers

It looks like I still have a little clean-up to do. I wanted to ensure I could repeat the build, so I did a make clean, then another qmake (which finished successfully), and a make, which brought back the compiler flag issue:

mzimmers@debian:~/QtStuff/qtbase/src/plugins/sqldrivers/mysql$ make
g++ -c -pipe -O2 -std=c++1z -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -fno-exceptions -Wall -W -Wvla -Wdate-time -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII -DQT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_PLUGIN -DQT_SQL_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -isystem /usr/include -I/opt/Qt/5.8/gcc_64/include/QtSql/5.8.0 -I/opt/Qt/5.8/gcc_64/include/QtSql/5.8.0/QtSql -I/opt/Qt/5.8/gcc_64/include/QtCore/5.8.0 -I/opt/Qt/5.8/gcc_64/include/QtCore/5.8.0/QtCore -I/opt/Qt/5.8/gcc_64/include -I/opt/Qt/5.8/gcc_64/include/QtSql -I/opt/Qt/5.8/gcc_64/include/QtCore -I.moc -isystem /usr/include/mysql -I../../../../mkspecs/linux-g++ -o .obj/qsql_mysql.o qsql_mysql.cpp
g++: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-std=c++1z’
Makefile:801: recipe for target '.obj/qsql_mysql.o' failed
make: *** [.obj/qsql_mysql.o] Error 1

I've reviewed this thread for the various suggestions, and I can't see anything that I'm still doing wrong at this point. Any suggestions?

Thank you.

SGaist

Something strange, the wrong standard is selected. Just tested and it used c++1y

mzimmers

Does your project file look like this?

TARGET = qsqlmysql

HEADERS += $$PWD/qsql_mysql_p.h
SOURCES += $$PWD/qsql_mysql.cpp $$PWD/main.cpp

#QMAKE_USE += mysql

OTHER_FILES += mysql.json

PLUGIN_CLASS_NAME = QMYSQLDriverPlugin
include(../qsqldriverbase.pri)

And do your installed mysql packages look more or less like this?

dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | grep mysql
ii  libmysqlclient-dev                    5.5.54-0+deb8u1                      amd64        MySQL database development files
ii  libmysqlclient18:amd64                5.5.54-0+deb8u1                      amd64        MySQL database client library
ii  libmysqlcppconn7                      1.1.3-6                              amd64        MySQL Connector for C++ (library)
ii  libqt5sql5-mysql:amd64                5.3.2+dfsg-4+deb8u2                  amd64        Qt 5 MySQL database driver
ii  mysql-apt-config                      0.8.3-1                              all          Auto configuration for MySQL APT Repo.
ii  mysql-common                          5.7.17-1debian8                      amd64        MySQL Common
ii  mysql-community-source                5.7.17-1debian8                      amd64        MySQL source
ii  mysql-workbench                       6.2.3+dfsg-7                         amd64        MySQL Workbench - a visual database modeling, administration and queuing tool
ii  mysql-workbench-data                  6.2.3+dfsg-7                         all          MySQL Workbench -- architecture independent data
ii  python-mysql.connector                1.2.3-2                              all          pure Python implementation of MySQL Client/Server protocol
mzimmers@debian:~/QtStuff/qtbase/src/plugins/sqldrivers/mysql$

SGaist

Sorry, I was building 5.9 but the project file is the same except that I didn't comment QMAKE_USE in my case.

mzimmers

@SGaist OK, well...this is confounding.

I've also lost my CLI commands for mysql-client and mysql-server. I think when I was uninstalling, I may have lost a few things. Do you think I should install these?

mysql-server | 5.5.54-0+deb8u1 | http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages
mysql-server | 5.5.54-0+deb8u1 | http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages

SGaist

Yes, otherwise you won't have a MySQL database available on your machine. Note that you don't need it to build the plugin, really just to provide a database to work with.

mzimmers

SGaist: I'm going to re-do my MySQL installations from scratch, using the notes above. One thing I'm not clear on is, why am I using 5.5.54 instead of 5.7.17? Is it compatibility with the plugin source?

SGaist

AFAIK, 5.5 is the current officially available on jessie. 5.7 is from sid AKA unstable.

mzimmers

Thank you for all of the help, SGaist. I've got a clean installation of the correct version of mysql on my system now, and I believe I'm building correctly (if I manually modify the compiler flags). When I make, I get a file libqsqlmysql.so in qtbase/plugins/sqldrivers. When I do a make install, I get a copy of this file in /opt/Qt/5.8/gcc_64/plugins/sqldrivers. I believe this is the correct behavior. There's also a copy in tTools/QtCreator/libQt/plugins/sqldrivers. I think this got downloaded with Creator.

Oddly, though, the file sizes aren't the same. Does "make install" actually build again, using different compiler options?

I'm going to consider this thread resolved. To summarize:

Make sure you're using the correct version of qmake. Use the full pathname.
When you install the mysql package, make sure you're getting the correct version.
If you'll need a local server, install mysql-server. This will automatically give you mysql-client and some other stuff you will likely need at some point.
In addition to installing mysql-server, you need to install libmysqlclient-dev for some header files.
If you don't already have them, you need to install zlib1g-dev and libssl-dev as well.
If you're not doing this as a super-user, you may not have permissions to build in place, and you'll need to make a private copy first. The "make install" command should create a copy in the correct location.

SGaist

Just a small thing for number 3, you don't need the mysql-server package if you'll be connecting to a remote server. only libmysqlclient-dev.

mzimmers

@SGaist right you are: I reworded it. Thanks.