Re: MySQL and Cocoa - looking for samples, kits, docs, etc
Re: MySQL and Cocoa - looking for samples, kits, docs, etc
- Subject: Re: MySQL and Cocoa - looking for samples, kits, docs, etc
- From: Ted Thibodeau Jr <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:27:27 -0500
Hi, Steven --
* Steven (RSAA Storage) Smith [2006/12/26 01:08 PM -0700] wrote:
> Anyone have samples or url's to samples of using MySQL (I'm currently
> running 5.0.21 standard) on MacOSX (10.4.8) using Cocoa? I've tried
>
> http://mysql-cocoa.sourceforge.net/
>
> but the link to the example files is broken and I haven't been able
> to figure out the framework. I'd like to be use MySQL API's directly
> from Cocoa, but would be okay to use Cocoa bundled/linked to C++ or C
> API's if someone knows how or can point me in the right direction.
I can't recommend building directly to any DBMS, because that locks
you (and your customers/users) into a back-end which may not be the
best next week, month, or year -- but I would recommend looking into
ODBC, either through Andrew Satori's ODBCKit, wrapping Objective C
around the base of C/C++ --
http://sourceforge.net/projects/odbckit
http://www.druware.com/products/odbckit.html
-- or through the more raw C or C++ API calls in the iODBC dylibs and
frameworks from the full (free) iODBC SDK provided by OpenLink Software
(my employers) --
http://sourceforge.net/projects/iodbc
http://www.iodbc.org/
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23969
Building to use the ODBC APIs -- especially if you use standards-
compliant SQL (rather than DBMS-specific dialects) -- can deliver an
application which can be used against any ODBC accessible DBMS, which
means end-users can use MySQL if they want, or OpenLink Virtuoso,
PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, Ingres, Progress,
Frontbase, Openbase, Firebird, etc. -- whatever engine suits their
overall personal or enterprise needs and goals.
Full documentation on writing ODBC applications is found in the online
ODBC Developer's Guide, hosted by Microsoft (maintainers of the spec).
This documentation is not scoped to Objective C, nor to Mac OS X, but
it covers the ODBC API in fairly exhaustive detail.
Be seeing you,
Ted
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