MySQL Bugs: #81273: dbxopenmysql50.dll

Bug #81273	dbxopenmysql50.dll
Submitted:	2 May 2016 9:38	Modified:	2 Jun 2016 14:00
Reporter:	J Lex Dean	Email Updates:
Status:	No Feedback	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	MySQL 5.1	OS:	Windows
Assigned to:	Assigned Account	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	Delphi

Description:
Ado.net connector has no user instructions and cannot be found through the ADO interface.

Delphi has only 2 ways to connect to MySQL
1/ through ODBC and dbxopenmysql50.dll (that is only Windows XP usable)
2/ through ADO, that can be seen as faster if we knew how and can setup a schema

At the moment no 32 bit Delphi programmer can use your database on windows 7 up.

I do not have the information from you people or from dbxopenmysql50.dll to update it as I run Delphi 7 and would like to use it.

How to repeat:
dbxopenmysql50.dll is only Windows XP usable, not windows 7,8,10 usable
as it only runs on MySQL 5.1

Suggested fix:
I understand you make your connectors connect through Localhost
If you want to support Delphi my advice

Make a new dbxopenmysql57.dll but future prof it that when MYSQL adds a new feature/datatype the new dbxopenmysql57.dll will simply hide it from Delphi and not crash.
I do not have the information from you people or from dbxopenmysql50.dll to update it as I run Delphi 7.

Hi J Lex,

Thanks for your interest in MySQL software.
Unfortunately, I do no quite understand everything in your request.
Can you please clarify a few things for me?

1. You mentioned dbxopenmysql50.dll a few times and even suggested that we should fix it or make a new one. For your information dbxopenmysql50.dll is not a MySQL product. It is a 3rd party DbExpress driver for MySQL Server. Our ODBC drivers DLLs are myodbc5a.dll and myodbc5w.dll. Have you tried using them?

2. A quote from your report: "I understand you make your connectors connect through Localhost". What do you mean by that? Our ODBC drivers can connect to MySQL Server not only through localhost, but TCP/IP, shared memory, named pipe etc.

If your request addresses non-MySQL products we cannot help you much. However, we will do everything possible to help you if you have problem with MyODBC drivers (the official MySQL ODBC drivers).

Please advise.

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".