Tod,
This is exactly what I am looking for. The CE PocketPC platform is the one
I could make good use of. Just the MyISAM table type and no client/server
needed. The pocket access table functionality included in PocketPCs is very
limited and SQL Server CE is great but expensive and slightly inflexible.
I think I found a full MySQL server compiled for Debian ARM which ran on an
iPaq with Linux on, but I need CE as linux is so unfriendly on PDAs compared
with PocketPC 2002.
Thanks
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Nick Miles - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Client/Server & Web Database Apps
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tod Harter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 17 July 2002 16:40
To: Cal Evans; Nick Miles; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Windows CE & MySQL
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 09:09, Cal Evans wrote:
> I can see where accessing the server from a handheld would be cool but I
> question the concept of actually RUNNING the server on a handheld. Write
a
> cool lightweight client with the library and leave the server on beefier
> HW.
There are actually reasonable reasons for wanting to have a lightweight
server, but really what you want is simply an application with embedded
MySQL
in it. In other words you don't need a client/server database, you need
access to tables and you want to reuse client code which works already with
MySQL database, so what you do is compile the embedded server into your
program. Effectively it has the same API as the client library, except it
does all the work directly itself instead of talking to a server.
I don't know how much resources it requires though, nor what the
requirements
would be as far as functionality the platform has to support in order to
compile it. My guess would be you could fairly easily do this on a Linux
based PDA like the Zaurus, and its not unlikely it might work in CE, but I
doubt you'd have much luck with things like Palms since they have a pretty
weird set of OS functions thats nothing like what you get on a normal
desktop
OS (ie you don't have a regular C standard library really...).
>
> =C=
>
> *
> * Cal Evans
> * The Virtual CIO
> * http://www.calevans.com
> *
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Miles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 3:34 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Windows CE & MySQL
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone tried building a MySQL server for Windows CE ?
>
> I have found a really good client for CE called DALP
> (http://www.kalpadrum.com/dalp/) but no server.
>
> It would be really good to have a cut down MySQL server on PDAs. I have
> had a go at compiling the server using Embedded Visual C++ 3 but my C
> skills are no where near good enough to get anywhere.
>
>
> Thanks
>
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> Nick Miles - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Database Developments Ltd
> Client/Server & Web Database Apps
> Tel +44 1453 861155 Fax +44 1453 861166
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