Joshua> Nevermind, the client library that TCX ships with Joshua> the Win32 version of MySQL mysqlclient.lib has symbols Joshua> that don't resolve because they did NOT build it for Joshua> the same c library MSVCRT that the perl build uses.

Joshua> The library they ship has symbols like __pctype, when it Joshua> needs to have __pctype_dll which are resolved with MSVCRT

Joshua> Hopefully TCX will get me a mysqlclient.lib that can Joshua> build with MSVCRT.LIB

The shipped mysqlclient.lib must be linked wit the thread safe Win32 libraries.

Note that the newest Activestate perl distribution now by default contains DBD-MySQL! Any reason for not using this?

You can also find a copy of the MySQL library in source in the MyODBC source distribution at http://www.mysql.com/download_win32.html

Regards, Monty