[Qt-interest] Help me using mysql with qt

Christopher Rasch-Olsen Raa christopher at technophile.info
Mon Aug 3 15:54:22 CEST 2009


Hi,

What I wrote there worked for me, and reportedly by others as well. It DOES 
break horribly and in all sorts of creative ways if you don't follow the 
description to the letter, by for example having spaces in some of the 
pathnames.

--
Christopher

On Monday 03 August 2009 15:47:19 Aditya Sharma wrote:
> I want to do it all over again. Uninstall qt sdk, mysql and everything and
> start from scratch. Is things mentioned at
> http://christopher.rasch-olsen.no/2009/04/14/qt-45-and-mysql-plugin-with-mi
>ngw-on-windows-xp/correct?
>
> I followed that line bye line, but got stuck :(
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> > On 03.08.09 08:19:21, John McClurkin wrote:
> > > Also, it has been pointed out that 'nix platforms in general and the
> > > Gnu toolchain in particular don't tolerate spaces in directory path
> > > names or in file names.
> >
> > Sorry, but that is complete and utter nonsense. Unix tools handle spaces
> > in filenames or paths just fine. If you re-read that statement more
> > closely, the problem is said to be with Qt's qmake. However thats also
> > not quite correct IIRC, the issue is having qmake itself in a path with
> > spaces is a problem, but having a .pro file in a path with spaces is not.
> >
> > Andreas
> >
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