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mysql_config - get compile options for compiling clients

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mysql_config options

mysql_config provides you with useful information for compiling your MySQL client and connecting it to MySQL.

mysql_config supports the following options:

o	--cflags Compiler flags to find include files and critical compiler flags and defines used when compiling the libmysqlclient library.
o	--include Compiler options to find MySQL include files. (Note that normally you would use --cflags instead of this option.)
o	--libmysqld-libs, --embedded Libraries and options required to link with the MySQL embedded server.
o	--libs Libraries and options required to link with the MySQL client library.
o	--libs_r Libraries and options required to link with the thread-safe MySQL client library.
o	--port The default TCP/IP port number, defined when configuring MySQL.
o	--socket The default Unix socket file, defined when configuring MySQL.
o	--version Version number for the MySQL distribution.

If you invoke mysql_config with no options, it displays a list of all options that it supports, and their values:

shell> mysql_config
Usage: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config [options]
Options:
  --cflags         [-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql -mcpu=pentiumpro]
  --include        [-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql]
  --libs           [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz
                    -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -L/usr/lib -lssl -lcrypto]
  --libs_r         [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient_r
                    -lpthread -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lpthread]
  --socket         [/tmp/mysql.sock]
  --port           [3306]
  --version        [4.0.16]
  --libmysqld-libs [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqld -lpthread -lz
                    -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lpthread -lrt]

You can use mysql_config within a command line to include the value that it displays for a particular option. For example, to compile a MySQL client program, use mysql_config as follows:

shell> CFG=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
shell> sh -c "gcc -o progname ‘$CFG --cflags‘ progname.c ‘$CFG --libs‘"

When you use mysql_config this way, be sure to invoke it within backtick (\(oq‘\(cq) characters. That tells the shell to execute it and substitute its output into the surrounding command.

isamchk(1), isamlog(1), msql2mysql(1), myisam_ftdump(1), myisamchk(1), myisamlog(1), myisampack(1), mysql(1), mysql.server(1), mysql_fix_privilege_tables(1), mysql_zap(1), mysqlaccess(1), mysqladmin(1), mysqlbinlog(1), mysqlcheck(1), mysqld(1), mysqld_multi(1), mysqld_safe(1), mysqldump(1), mysqlhotcopy(1), mysqlimport(1), mysqlshow(1), pack_isam(1), perror(1), replace(1), safe_mysqld(1)

For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be installed locally and which is also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.

MySQL AB (http://www.mysql.com/). This software comes with no warranty.

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