Re: Installation of MySQL Connector/ODBC fails

Bogdan Degtyariov <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Apr 2019 21:10:39 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.odbc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/03/2019 1:00 am, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> Bogdan Degtyariov:
> 
>> The Connector/ODBC 5.3.6 for OSX needs UnixODBC to work.
>> The problem with UnixODBC is that there is no official
>> binary distribution for OSX.
> 
> As far as I have understood from the ODBC standard, driver
> managers are interchangeable so that any ODBC dirver shall
> work with any ODBC driver manager.  Is myodbc special in
> this regard?
> 

That is not always the case.
iODBC and UnixODBC have different library names.
The ODBC driver needs the driver manager libraries to work. Therefore 
this dependency is there...

The newer 5.3 MySQL ODBC driver such as 5.3.12 uses iODBC.

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