The MySQL driver for LibreOffice. == Status == The code is on a PREVIEW level. PREVIEW means pre-alpha. == Requirements == The MySQL driver for OpenOffice.org (MySQL Connector/OpenOffice.org - C/OOo) requires two external libraries to be build: 1) The MySQL Client Library (libmysql) 2) The MySQL Connector/C++ Library (libmysqlcppcon) At the time of writing neither of the two libraries are part of the CWS! Before you can build the MySQL driver for OpenOffice.org you must install the two required libraries on your system before you can compile the driver. You need the two libraries because the MySQL driver for OpenOffice.org does not feature an implementation of the MySQL Client Server communication protocol. The protocol implementation is part of the MySQL Client Library. And the SDBC(X) style OpenOffice.org driver is implemented as a wrapper of the MySQL Connector/C++ Library which implements a JDBC interface and in turn uses the C based MySQL Client Library. 1) MySQL Client Library (libmysql) The MySQL Client Library (libmysql) is part of the MySQL Server. You need to download and install the MySQL Server. Use a binary distribution of MySQL 5.0.x or MySQL 5.1.x. Check the MySQL manual for instructions, e.g. for Unix: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/installing-binary.html The typical installation path of the libmysql.so on Unix is /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/ . 2) MySQL Connector/C++ (libmysqlcppcon) Download and install the latest version of the MySQL Connector/C++, see http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Connector_C++ . Check out the source from the bzr repository. 3) Tweaking library paths At the time of writing you might have to *manually* tweak library paths and library names by patching makefile.mk. This is a temporary hack. The makefile will be improved later. However, for the moment check the makefile.mk if the compilation fails due to "missing" libraries (= libraries not found). For example, check the following settings: MYSQL_INCDIR=/usr/local/include MYSQL_LIBDIR=/usr/local/lib [...] MYSQL_INCDIR=/usr/local/include MYSQL_LIBDIR=/usr/local/lib [...] MYSQL_INC=-I$(MYSQL_INCDIR) MYSQL_LIB=-L$(MYSQL_LIBDIR) -lmysqlclient -rdynamic -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm MYSQL_LIBFILE=$(MYSQL_LIBDIR)$/libmysqlclient.so.16 MYSQL_CPPCONN_LIBFILE=$(MYSQL_LIBDIR)$/libmysqlcppconn.so [...] A common issue is libmysqlclient.so.15 vs. libmysqlclient.so.16 .