About MariaDB Connector/C
The most recent Stable (GA) release of MariaDB Connector/C is:
MariaDB Connector/C 3.3.8
Date | Release | Status | Release Notes | Changelog |
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20 Jan 2016 | MariaDB Connector/C 3.0.0 | Alpha | Release Notes | |
26 Apr 2016 | MariaDB Connector/C 2.2.3 | Stable (GA) | Release Notes | Changelog |
9 Dec 2015 | MariaDB Connector/C 2.2.2 | Stable (GA) | Release Notes | Changelog |
18 Nov 2015 | MariaDB Connector/C 2.2.1 | Stable (GA) | Release Notes | Changelog |
29 Sep 2015 | MariaDB Connector/C 2.2.0 | Stable (GA) | Release Notes | Changelog |
29 Jan 2015 | MariaDB Connector/C 2.1.0 | Stable (GA) | Release Notes | Changelog |
2 Apr 2014 | MariaDB Client Library for C 2.0.0 | Stable (GA) | Release Notes | Changelog |
29 Nov 2012 | MariaDB Client Library for C 1.0.0 | Stable (GA) | Release Notes | Changelog |
Contents
About
MariaDB Connector/C is used to connect applications developed in C/C++ to MariaDB and MySQL databases.The client library is LGPL licensed.
Parts of MariaDB Connector/C are derived from PHP's mysqlnd extension and the original LGPL MySQL client library for MySQL 3.23. The rest of the code is written by developers at MariaDB Corporation Ab.
API - function reference
MariaDB Connector/C has exactly the same API as the MySQL Connector/C for MySQL 5.5
The function reference is available at:
- MariaDB Client Library for C API Functions
- MariaDB Client Library for C API Prepared Statement Functions
It is also downloadable in html format from https://mariadb.org/files/mariadb-client-doc.zip
Obtaining the driver
The driver is downloaded from: https://downloads.mariadb.org/connector-c/
Source code
The source code is available on Github: https://github.com/MariaDB/mariadb-connector-c
Known bugs and limitations
- double to string conversion for prepared statements doesn't work correctly
License
GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
For licensing questions, see the Licensing FAQ.