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MySQL on Unix

MySQL can be accessed locally as well as via a remote database connection in a UNIX or LINUX environment. To make MySQL work and visible as a database choice for Iguana channel configurations you must ensure that the shared object libmysqlclient_r.so is available in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

On our Linux distribution, this is located in /usr/lib/mysql/lib. So, before starting Iguana you should export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/user/lib/mysql/lib.

	The location of the file may be different, depending on your specific UNIX or Linux distribution. If your MySQL distribution does not have the shared object, you can build it using the instructions found in the MySQL Reference Manual. You should find instructions that show you how to build the shared object for MySQL 4.1.

In order for MySQL to be detected, the path must be in the platform dynamic library's load path. The table below shows the shared object name and dynamic load library load path for each supported platform: