How to make Qt aware of the QMYSQL driver

Question

I\'m trying to access a MySql database from a Qt application but I get the following error:

QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL driver not loaded
QSqlDatabase: available dr         


        

Answer 1

Last time I looked at this you needed to rebuild Qt from source and include the appropriate MySQL source.

Building Qt from the sources is not hard, it just takes a while. You are likely to have the required tools already.

A possible workaround may be to access the back-end over ODBC instead.