the message is, that lazarus shouldn't become 1.0, since there is proper working support for mysql, which is really important to many, many people.
It should be the answer: download a maybe existing version of mysql, which is old - just to extract a dll, where you never know if it work properly, an then to try to compile lazarus to see, that it breakes.
lazarus neighter have odbc support.
except of these issues, lazarus is great for simple things, but if you want to make something with conventional and broad used db's, its a pain in the ass....