Re: Free database bindings for Windows?

[Fionn Mac Cumhaill <invisible@hiding.from.spam>]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:59:35 -0500, "Peter C. Chapin"
<pchapin@sover.net> wrote:

>I'm looking for a good way to interact with an off the shelf database 
>server from an Ada application. I need to be able to make SQL queries, 
>examine the results, and so forth. My application will be running on 
>Windows XP and will be built with GNAT GPL 2007. The database server 
>probably also needs to run on Windows XP, but this is a more flexible 
>requirement... I might be able to run the database server on a Linux 
>machine. My intention is to use either PostgreSQL (preferred) or MySQL. 
>I could possibly also use Oracle.
>
>After a quick search I located GNADE and APQ. Neither of these projects 
>appears to be particularly active (my apologies if I misinterpreted the 
>web pages). There is an ADBI (Ada Database Interface) project on 
>SourceForge that looks at least somewhat active, but there are no 
>downloadable files posted for it yet.
>
>I'm wondering if there is a "well known" database interface library for 
>Ada that I should be looking at.
>
>Thanks
>
>Peter

The MySQL binding in GNADE is for MySQL 3 and 4.
I have updated it for MySQL 5. It still needs work, but all that
remains to be done is in source code comments - the source contains
comments referring to MySQL V4 C header files which I have not yet
edited to properly refer to the V5 headers. I should send it back to
the GNADE project, but I can also e-mail it to interested parties or
post it here.