Support,

Tried doing a compile on Windows, but am having a problem getting
the patches applied (never had to do that before). I found and
installed a Gnu patch utility - 2.5.9
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm

But it failed with this:



Any suggestions?

BunBun,

We've found the same to be true. What we recommend for Windows source installs is that you actually unzip the whole code structure on a UNIX-based machine, execute the patch and then move the code over to your Windows box to do the compilation.

We've also run into some compiler errors with the MySQL source code if you use the same source tree you used to compile MySQL originally. You should redownload the whole source tree (same version as before) from MySQL and patch that. It seems that Visual Studio/Visual C++ has trouble making some links if you use the same .sln file that you originally used to compile MySQL.

Matt L

Update

I was able to successfully patch 5.0.51a on Windows using cygwin. Make sure you have the most recent patch (v.2.5.8). Run cygwin's setup.exe to install patch if you don't already have it, then you can execute the patch commands just like our documentation says:



Just remember to replace the version numbers after compat- and patch- with the versions that came with your source distribution of ExtSQL.

Happy patching,
Matt