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+If you have code that uses the old MySQLmodule's Mysqldb interface,
+try CompatMysqldb. It is the old module adapted to use _mysql instead
+of MySQL[module]. The original Mysqldb was written by James Henstridge.
+If it's broken, it's probably my fault: I haven't tested it very much.
+Consider it experimental.
+
+Andy Dustman
+<andy@dustman.net>
+2000-08-09
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+Notes:
+
+1) The patches are applied already, so you won't find them.
+2) Supposedly the compile.py that is included here will work on
+   both unix and windows, but I've tried it on neither.
+
+Andy
+
+From bkline@rksystems.com Tue Sep 14 16:09:13 1999
+Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:22:06 -0400 (EDT)
+From: Bob Kline <bkline@rksystems.com>
+To: adustman@comstar.net
+Subject: Win32 Build of MySQLdb
+
+Andy:
+
+In the documentation for MySQLdb, you wrote:
+
+> If you work out an installation routine for Windows, please contact
+> the author.
+
+I have built MySQLdb on Windows NT 4.0, PL5, using MSVC 6.0.  The steps
+I took were:
+
+ 1. Pull down and modify David Ascher's compile.py.
+ 2. Modify _mysqlmodule.c.
+ 3. Modify Setup.in.
+ 4. Run compile.py.
+ 5. Copy _mysql.pyd and MySQLdb.py into the PYTHONPATH.
+
+I have attached a zip archive containing:
+
+ * _mysqlmodule.c
+ * _mysqlmodule.diff
+ * Setup.in
+ * Setup.diff
+ * compile.py
+
+Specifics about the modifications:
+
+1. Ascher's script linked to the single-threaded C run-time libraries,
+   but the mysql libraries are multi-threaded.  Changed /MD to /MT and
+   /MDd to /MTd.
+2. The mysql headers need but fail to include windows.h on WIN32.  Added
+   conditional #include statement.
+3. The non-standard type uint needed to be defined.
+4. Some of the mysql constants used by MySQLdb are presumably from 
+   version 3.22.19 (as you indicate in the documentation), but the 
+   latest version of the client/development tools available for
+   Win32 is 3.22.14, which doesn't have all of those constants defined.
+   Added some #ifdef statements to make sure symbols that aren't 
+   defined aren't used.
+5. The PyObject_HEAD_INIT(&PyType_Type) don't work on Win32, as
+   explained in the online Python tutorials.  Added conditional
+   replacement approach as instructed by that documentation.
+6. Added a null pointer test to a Py_DECREF call to avoid a 
+   segmentation fault.
+7. Modifed Setup.in to account for the location of the mysql
+   headers and libraries on my system, and to include the Win32
+   sockets library (wsock32.lib)
+
+The modified C source code should still work on all platforms.  The
+Setup file will need to be customized for each platform which doesn't
+have its mysql headers and libraries in the default locations, and Win32
+builds will need wsock32 in the setup file.  I wasn't able to determine
+how to put conditional portions in the setup file (ideally I wouldn't
+have needed to modify compily.py at all).  I presume there is
+documentation somewhere for this setup file, but I'm new enough to the
+Python world that I haven't found it yet.
+
+Assuming the modifications to _mysqlmodule.c get folded into the
+distribution, and a version of Setup.in for Win32 (including
+"-lwsock32") is added to the distribution (for example, as Setup.w32),
+and the attached version of Ascher's script is included, the steps
+someone else would take in order to build with the current version of
+MSVC would be:
+
+1. Copy Setup.w32 to Setup.in.
+2. Adjust paths in Setup.in as needed.
+3. Run compile.py.
+4. Copy _mysql.pyd and MySQLdb.py into the PYTHONPATH.
+
+Hope this is useful.
+
+-- 
+Bob Kline
+mailto:bkline@rksystems.com
+http://www.rksystems.com
+
+
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