ld: library not found for -lmysqlclient_r (when trying to build mysql driver on mac)

[LeeH]

Thanks for that. I shall leave you in peace for a while as I explore them and see how things turn out, and thanks so much for your help so far. I really appreciate it.

[LeeH]

YEEAAH!

After another 2 days of battling, I FINALLY got it working. I had totally given up on the conventional method of doing this for mac, as it was getting me no where. I still cannot for the life of me understand why Qt didn't load this very popular driver in the release and why building this driver on mac is so difficult when I had previously got it working on windows the conventional way much easier (thanks to @SGaist and others).

Anyway Homebrew worked by installing Qt and MySql together: (this takes a very long time)

brew install qt5 --with-mysql

after that installed Qt creator:

brew cask install qt-creator

then configured MySql as normal through terminal as it seems you can't get sysprefpane this way.

Hopefully this can help others, and a big thanks to @SGaist for taking the time!