/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient again and again

[andipurwito]

I've just install FreePascal v2.2.0 on Fedora 7 but while compile my program that use MySQL4 library, there's an error below:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient

Anyway i take an action to list mysql library in /usr/lib/mysql and found some files below:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      26 2007-09-11 23:35 libmysqlclient_r.so.15 -> libmysqlclient_r.so.15.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1457164 2007-03-30 06:44 libmysqlclient_r.so.15.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      24 2007-09-11 23:35 libmysqlclient.so.15 -> libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1448680 2007-03-30 06:44 libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      39 2007-09-17 14:42 lmysqlclient -> /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   12394 2007-03-30 06:43 mysqlbug
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    5449 2007-03-30 06:43 mysql_config

then make a link file to lmysqlclient:
#ln -s /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 lmysqlclient

But there's still the same error.
How should i take action to solve it?

[andipurwito]

I have no idea what's deference between libmysqlclient_r.so.15.0.0 and libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0?

[Marc]

have you seen this thread ?
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=3548

[andipurwito]

thanks for your guidance, but it seem uncompleted thread and still have no solution.

[Marc]

did you follow all the steps suggested there ?
What was the outcome of the example programs ?

IOW, where did it fail ?

[Marc]

OOowwwww....
I notice now that you're using MySQL4 (I got confused with libmysqlclient.so.15)

for MySQL4 you need libmysqlclient.so.14

(no, mysql libs are not compatible)