如何为Mac OS X安装MySQL Connector C ++（使用终端）？

Question

I downloaded the MySQL Connector/C++ source tree, which has an 'include' and a 'lib' directory. Now I'm following the README.txt. I download CMake which launches as a program with a UI. The first step of the installation says

me@host:/path/to/mysql-connector-cpp> cmake .

I can't make much sense of this. Does this mean to cd into the directory of the source tree and then run cmake? On what file?

I found this this thread and these instructions but they seem unique to installation using the Xcode UI and I don't know how to apply them in the Terminal. I plan on compiling / running the C++ with g++.

Thanks,

fertileneutrino

Answer 1

Yes, it does mean - go to the root directory of the source distribution and type cmake . . As for the file, the default file for CMake is CMakeList.txt , so you don't have to specify it. You can also run cmake in other directories and specify the path to the source root directory as a second argument. For example, a very common way of building projects is this:

$ cd project-sources
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ make install

That way, all generated files can be simply nuked by removing the build directory, for example: rm -rf build .