QMYSQL driver not loaded

[wysota]

I would try running configure with options to enable mysql support and then cd into the directory containing the plugin and run make there. There might have been some changes in Qt that modified the way plugins are build and those instructions might be wrong.

[sepehr]

I would try running configure with options to enable mysql support and then cd into the directory containing the plugin and run make there. There might have been some changes in Qt that modified the way plugins are build and those instructions might be wrong.

i did that,the same errors cameup,

[spirit]

are you sure that this file name is correct 'liblibmysql.a'? maybe 'libmysql.a'?

[sepehr]

are you sure that this file name is correct 'liblibmysql.a'? maybe 'libmysql.a'?

yes I'm sure it's liblibmysql.a,i checked it

[wysota]

It really should be libmysql.a...

[sepehr]

there was just a versioning issue and the problem got fixed by upgrading mysql server and I could make those mysql drivers DLLs ,now is there anything other than DLL files that I should ship ? because I get the same error on other machines trying to execute my program despite of having the DLLs

[wysota]

You should ship the Qt MySQL driver (qmysql.dll) and MySQL client library (mysqlclient.dll or mysql.dll or something like that). The driver has to be placed in the sqldrivers subdirectory of your application's installation directory and MySQL library either in the installation directory or in a system directory (like C:\Windows\System32).

[sepehr]

You should ship the Qt MySQL driver (qmysql.dll) and MySQL client library (mysqlclient.dll or mysql.dll or something like that). The driver has to be placed in the sqldrivers subdirectory of your application's installation directory and MySQL library either in the installation directory or in a system directory (like C:\Windows\System32).

from QT docs

Plugins work differently to normal DLLs, so we can't just copy them into the same directory as our application's executable as we did with the Qt DLLs. When looking for plugins, the application searches in a plugins subdirectory inside the directory of the application executable.

So to make the plugins available to our application, we have to create the plugins subdirectory and copy over the relevant DLLs:

plugins\pnp_basictools.dll
plugins\pnp_extrafilters.dll

it was not mentioned that sql drivers DLL files should be put in a subdirectory called sqldrivers within plugins directory,thanks wysota