[mythtv] Ticket #4270: MythTV on Windows (with MinGW)

[Simon Kenyon]

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 10:28 -0500, Andrei Tanas wrote:
> > i have tried every which way.
> > from what i have read, there are some issues with the mysql package in
> > that there is no supplied libmysql.a
> > i have followed various recipes explaining how to build it and what to
> > pass to the configure line.
> 
> You don't need libmysql.a, gcc can link directly against libmysql.dll.

well that is the problem with the web
there is so much mis-information out there
are you saying that i don't need to do any of this reimp/dlltool
nonsense?

> > if somebody who does not exactly what to do would be so kind as to
> > update the wiki - i think a lot of people would be grateful.
> 
> Would it help if I gave you binary qt3-mt.dll?

thank you for the kind offer
i run gentoo - so i'm a "compile it from the source" kind of person
i will keep trying myself over the christmas holidays

thank you for all your hard work
--
simon