Thank you Mpaa and jayvdb for your instant help. I have installed libmysqlcppconn-dev but it hasn't solved the problem. I'm leaving oursql uninstalled for the now. Thank you so much. Tanu.
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:26 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > You can remove oursql from requirements.txt. > > It is an optional dependency, and not frequently used. > > On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 06:05 Tanu Hari Dixit <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Andre, >> Thank you for the link. >> I have been experiencing a lot of trouble while setting up dependencies >> for pywikibot. While installing 'oursql' the terminal shows the following >> error: >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> mysql.h: No such file or directory >> #include "mysql.h" >> ^ >> compilation terminated. >> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This was probably because i didn't have mysql-c++ connector installed. >> Hence, I installed the mysql-server. It automatically installed >> mysql-client. Further, I downloaded the tar ball for my 64 bit ubuntu 14.04 >> system for mysql-c++ connector. I read the INSTALL file and it directed me >> to download CMake and Boost. I did so and as the INSTALL file says: >> "Run CMake to build a Makefile >> me@host:/path/to/mysql-connector-cpp> cmake ." >> So I change directory into the untarred folder ( of mysql-c++ connector >> tarball ) and run the 'cmake .' command. However, my terminal shows that it >> can't find any CMakeLists.txt files in the folder. When I searched for a >> file with this name, I found that there are four of them in the 'boost' >> folder at different levels (such as : >> >> /home/thd/Downloads/boost_1_59_0/libs/test/test/CMakeLists.txt >> >> /home/thd/Downloads/boost_1_59_0/libs/serialization/CMake/CMakeLists.txt >> etc) >> While this link ( >> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-cpp/en/connector-cpp-installation-source.html >> ) suggests that I do the following: >> >> cmake . -DBOOST_ROOT:STRING=/usr/local/boost_1_40_0 >> >> but I can't seem to locate a folder named boost in /usr/local. Though, I >> do find lots of .a and .so file with their names starting from libboost in >> /usr/local/lib. Though, again it has no CMakeLists.txt file in it. >> I'm unable to make this dependency work for me. It would be great if you >> helped me in configuring this. I so want to contribute to pywikibot, and >> learn in the process. >> Thank you for bearing with me. >> Tanu. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:53 AM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Tanu, >>> >>> thanks for your interest! >>> >>> On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 00:22 +0530, Tanu Hari Dixit wrote: >>> > I am Tanu, a third year undergraduate from Indian Institute of >>> > Technology, BHU, Varanasi, India. I have had prior experience >>> > designing a REST API in Python for which I collaborated to use >>> > various APIs available and Beautiful Soup as well as Flask. I want to >>> > contribute to pywikibot and am aiming at GSoC'16. Where should I >>> > start? What should I do? >>> >>> Have you checked out >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs already? >>> That page links to guides how to get started with development and it >>> also links to Pywikibot tasks suited for new contributors. >>> >>> If something is unclear, please ask. Happy to help! :) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> andre >>> -- >>> Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler >>> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> pywikibot mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikibot >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pywikibot mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikibot >> > > _______________________________________________ > pywikibot mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikibot > >
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