QMYSQL problem

[J Barchan]

On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 at 14:49, Angelo Ballabio <angeloballabio at gmail.com>
wrote:

> hi
>
> When I create a virtual environment and loaded PyQt5 into it, I realized
> that I cannot access MySQL database through  QSqlDatabase.addDatabase(self
> .DBtype), checking I saw that the libsqlmysql.so driver is not present in
> the sqldrivers directory along with the others. I tried to search the
> internet for the file in question, and nothing on the qt.io website, and
> also on mysql.com I can't find the file. if i use the one installed in my
> ubuntu 20.10 distribution it tells me that it is not compatible with the
> others. In a standard environment its does. Anyone have a solution to
> suggest?
>
> Angelo
>

My understanding: as of the changes made in Oracle licensing, Qt can no
longer distribute MySQL driver ready-built.  You have to build it for
yourself now.

In the release distro of Ubuntu 20.04 there is a ready-built SQL driver.
If you use that then no need to build.

But if you take a later Qt you have to do the build.  I don't know exactly
how this relates to your version of PyQt5 or your virtual environment
though.  But I'm assuming there is a relationship?

Hope this helps, I am interested to see the correct answer.
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