Bug #17298 Error while installing MySQL on Cygwin
Submitted: 10 Feb 2006 11:33 Modified: 10 Feb 2006 17:02
Reporter: Suresh Bhatt Email Updates:
Status: Unsupported Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:MySQL 5.0.18 OS:Cygwin
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[10 Feb 2006 11:33] Suresh Bhatt
Description:
I have tried all stuff that has been mentioned in the user manual and also looked for help elsewhere ... could not figure the problem why it is failing. Installed the latest verions of Cygiwn also. Even then i am getting the error listed down. 

Suggest Please

In file included from mysqlbinlog.cc:1479:
decimal.c: In function `int decimal_mul(decimal_t*, decimal_t*, decimal_t*)':
decimal.c:1974: error: cannot convert `decimal_digit_t*' to `char*' for argument
 `1' to `void bzero(char*, size_t)'
decimal.c: In function `int do_div_mod(decimal_t*, decimal_t*, decimal_t*, decim
al_t*, int)':
decimal.c:2138: error: cannot convert `dec1*' to `char*' for argument `1' to `vo
id bzero(char*, size_t)'
make[2]: *** [mysqlbinlog.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/d/Personal/MySQL/mysql-5.0.18/client'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/d/Personal/MySQL/mysql-5.0.18'
make: *** [all] Error 2

How to repeat:
I get this error during make.
[10 Feb 2006 12:06] Valeriy Kravchuk
Thank you for a problem report. Sorry, but we do not really support Cygwin on Windows.