MySQL Plugin for San Andreas Multiplayer (SA:MP)

The best and most famous MySQL plugin for SA:MP out there!

This plugin allows you to use MySQL in PAWN. It's currently being developed by maddinat0r.

How to install

Move mysql.dll (Windows) or mysql.so (Linux) to your plugins/ directory. If you are on Windows you also have to move the libmysql.dll to your main server directory. You'll have to edit the server configuration (server.cfg) as follows:

Windows

plugins mysql

Linux

plugins mysql.so

F.A.Q.

Q: I get a Failed (libmysqlclient_r.so.16: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) error, how do I fix this?
A: You don't have the MySQL client library installed. Install the "mysql-client" package.

Q: The plugin still can't find the "libmysqlclient_r.so.16", what can I do now?
A: If that error still occurs, you are probably using a newer version of the MySQL client library. In that case use the mysql_5.5.so, which is linked to the libmysqlclient18 rather than the libmysqlclient16.

Q: I get a Failed (plugins/mysql.so: symbol __cxa_pure_virtual, version libmysqlclient_16[...] error, is there any way to fix it?
A: That likely means that you are using a 64bit system and thus a 64bit libmysqlclient library. You'll have to use the static version of the plugin, the mysql_static.so.

Q: The plugin just fails to load on Windows, how can I fix this?
A: You have to install the Microsoft C++ redistributables (2010 (x86), 2010 SP1 (x86) and 2012 (x86)).

Q: I get a ton of debug messages regarding connections even though I'm calling mysql_connect only once, why is that so?
A: That's because the plugin uses multiple direct database connections per connection handle. The number of direct connections (and thus the number of those log messages) is 2+pool_size.

Build instruction

Windows

1. Install Microsoft Visual Studio C++ (2012 or newer, the Express version also works) and the MySQL C Connector (32-bit)
2. Install the boost libraries (version 1.55 or higher)
3. Open the solution file with Visual Studio -> right click on the project -> Properties -> VC++ Directories, use Release as configuration and adjust the paths to the previously installed libraries
4. Build the solution with Release as configuration

Linux

1. Install these packages (names may vary throughout the distributions): g++-multilib mysql-client libmysqlclient libmysqlclient-dev
2. Install the boost libraries (version 1.55 or higher)
3. Navigate to the project root directory and execute make

Thanks to

• AndreT (testing/several tutorials)
• DamianC (testing reports)
• JernejL (testing/suggestions)
• krisk (testing/suggestions)
• Kye (coding support)
• maddinat0r (developing the plugin as of R8)
• Mow (compiling/testing/hosting)
• nemesis (testing)
• Sergei (testing/suggestions/wiki documentation)
• xxmitsu (testing/compiling)