Installing Connector C for Mariadb - mysql

Question

So, I want to use Mariadb. There is this Connector-C for it.
https://downloads.mariadb.org/connector-c/
How do I install it? Quiet frankly, the documentation for it is horrible. Even the src file for 3.0.5 is linked to 3.0.4 page.
I did not find a way to install the binary, and the documentation for building from src is quiet vague. I would prefer to know how to install both ways (binary and build from source)
I'm using CentOS7 64bit.

Answer 1

The easiest way to install it would be to use the MariaDB package repository.
curl -sS https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb_repo_setup | sudo bash
sudo yum -y install MariaDB-devel
As for building from source, these steps should work on CentOS 7.
sudo yum -y install git gcc openssl-devel make cmake
git clone https://github.com/MariaDB/mariadb-connector-c.git
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../mariadb-connector-c/ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
sudo make install

Answer 2

And for Ubuntu 20.04...
sudo apt-get install libmariadb3 libmariadb-dev

Answer 3

Raspberry Pi OS
cd to preferred build location. Then install (thanks to #markusjm!):
sudo apt install git gcc make cmake libssl-dev
git clone https://github.com/MariaDB/mariadb-connector-c.git
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../mariadb-connector-c/ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
sudo make install
Then add installation directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Note: my installation directory is /usr/lib/mariadb. If you cannot find this after your installation, search for e.g. libmariadb.so, a file that should reside in your installation folder.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mariadb:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Afterwards you can finally pip3 install mariadb, if, like me, you tried to do that in the first place.

Answer 4

After you download MariaDB Connector/C, untar and cd. Then mv the executable first.
sudo mv -f bin/mariadb_config /usr/bin/
Now you can execute mariadb_config and will know where to put header and library files to build wheel for mariadb.
For example,
Ubuntu 18.04
sudo mv -f include/mariadb /usr/local/include/
sudo mv -f lib/mariadb /usr/local/lib/
CentOS 7 & Ubuntu 20.04
sudo mv -f include/mariadb /usr/include/
sudo mv -f lib/mariadb /usr/lib/
Finally, you could pip install mariadb. (Or, export CFLAGS=-std=c99 may help.)
After, in the case you cannot import mariadb,
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/PATH/TO/where/you/mv/lib/mariadb