[Digikam-users] MySQL DB with digikam 4.4 and newer

[Gilles Caulier]

2015-02-10 13:48 GMT+01:00 Robert Zeller <robert.zeller at robert-zeller.org>:
> Dear developers,
>
> I have a similar question:
> I am using digikam 4.7 compiled by myself on openSUSE 13.2. The
> distributed version of the source code (as is) only compiles with sqlite
> support . There seems to be the possibility also to compile DK with
> mysql enabled.
> 1. What do I have to change in the compile settings of DK to enable
> mysql support?

There is a cmake option to enable MySQL support

> 2. Is it safe now, to use mysql instead of sqlite?

no. Nothing have changed about MySQL (no maintainer). This is why
option exist and is disabled by default.

Gilles Caulier