Re: Crash of mysql under cygwin with g++ 3.3.1

[Fabrice Marchal <fmarchal at inf dot ethz dot ch>]

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Hallo Fabrice,
>
> Am Sonntag, 29. Februar 2004 um 12:11 schriebst du:
>
>  
>
> > Hallo Gerrit,
> >    
>
>  
>
> > thanks a lot for your help, now I have it working properly, with a 
> > statically
> > linked client and I only need to tell users to use the cygwin1.dll.
> >    
>
>  
>
> > I only had to do a small work-around because my client keeps telling me
> > that it
> > "cannot connect through /var/mysql/mysql.sock". The workaround is
> > to use mysql_real_connect with host=127.0.0.1 because if I use
> > "localhost" it turns to named pipes instead of using TCP. Any idea why it
> > is that way?
> >    
>
> No, sorry.  It never worked with TCP/IP when using host=localhost, I
> always use the IP address of the host where the server is running,
> only exception is when I use the Cygwin-MySQL server running at my
> local box where it also works via /var/mysql/mysql.sock.
>
>
> Gerrit
>  
Well, I wonder how the "mysql" client manage to connect: for instance 
the client
which is compiled in you binaries doesnt work (i.e. "cannot connet 
throuch socket....")
while the mysql clientprovided in Mysql-4.0.18 for windows work.

Fabrice

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