building amarok

[Robert Marshall]

For the benefit of the list - I've had an off-list discussion with Pedro
and I was missing libmariadb-dev-compat once that was installed, cmake ran
successfully though to completion.

Robert

Pedro de Carvalho Gomes writes:
 > Hi Robert,
 > 
 > First of all, mysql deprecated its embedded library after version 5.7.
 > This means that Amarok no longer can compile against newer versions.
 > The alternative is MariaDB, which still has an equivalent to
 > Mysql-embedded. So, please install all mariadb dependencies,
 > especially the devel packages.
 > 
 > Second: can you provide your environment? Distro, installed packages,
 > full cmake command, and so. Amarok should be easy to compile if you
 > have the right packages installed; but this is the hard part and
 > depends on your distribution.
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > 
 > Pedro
 > 
 > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 10:47 PM Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
 > >
 > > FYI, I think building from source should go to the devel mailing list, as it is not exactly basic user stuff
 > >
 > > Regards, Myriam
 > >
 > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
 > > From: Robert Marshall <robert at capuchin.co.uk>
 > > Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 17:00
 > > Subject: building amarok
 > > To: <amarok at kde.org>
 > >
 > >
 > > I'm attempting to build amarok from source using Pedro's version from
 > > github https://github.com/pcgomes/amarok
 > >
 > > Am having (so far ;) )  issues
 > >
 > > Initially I was using mysql.h from libmysqlclient-dev
 > > then realised - guessing from a missing #define that I needed the
 > > mariadb version I installed libmariadb-dev but now I'm getting
 > >
 > > CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:146 (message):
 > >   Could NOT find MySQL (missing: MYSQL_LIBRARIES MYSQL_INCLUDE_DIR)
 > >
 > > so with mysql it could find the sql libraries but now it still appears
 > > to be looking for them? A pointer to what I'm not seeing would be appreciated!
 > >
 > > Robert
 > > --
 > > Robert Marshall               twitter: @rajm
 > >
 > >
 > >
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