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Hello all. I am a beginner, so bear with me.

I have an application I am working on that connects to a mysql database. Things are working fine on the IDE, but when I export it as a standalone, I get an error message that the Drivers were not found for Linux.

Are those located somewhere that I need to make a path to?

Also, in the IDE I reference a couple of bash scripts using a complete path /home/me/livecode/database_project/bashscript

In the export as standalone settings, I have told it to save those file...which it does. But the standalone does not seem to be referencing them properly. I tried chaning the path to just bashscript but that does not seem to work.

Any advice or clues?

OK. I found where the database files are (~/.runrev/components/livecodecommunity-7.0.0 (x86)/Externals/Database Drivers) but still not able to make my standalone application with the drivers.

Is there a setting somewhere to tell livecode where those drivers should be?


I have managed to figure out why my bash scripts were not working in my standalone: when saving for linux 64, it puts it into a folder calle "linux x64"

That space in between linux and x64 was throwing things off quite a bit. Not sure why it would save anything for linux into a folder with a space in the name, but once I figured that out, I renamed the folder and then my standalone was able to access external files properly.


Now if I can just figure out what is happening with the drivers..

Hi ghettocottage,

LC should add the externals automatically when builidng a standalone!
You DID check "Database Support" etc. in the standalone builder setting, right?


Best

Klaus

Hi Klaus,

Thank you for responding.

Yes, I did check "Database Support". Underneath that checkbox is a little window that gives me a tool-tip that says "Choose one more more database drives to include"
However, that window is empty. I am not seeing a way to add anything to it. So far I have tried:

just including the database drivers as non-stack files
including the database drivers in the same folder as the stack I am building
including the database drivers in the Externals folder
burning one white chicken in honour of the Livecode Gods

none of those seems to have helped.

Hm, sound like an incomplete installation?
We are currently at LC 7.03, could you please install and test again with that version?
http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/

Alrighty...I uninstalled the Community Version (I think it was 7.01) and installed the 7.03 version. I was still having issues with the stack I had built, but on a whim I created a new blank stack and looked at the standalone application settings, and lo there were the db drivers nicely listed where you would expect.

Saving the new stack as a standlone finishes without any errors.

Fortunately I just have a few scripts on my previously built stack, so it should not be a problem to move everything over to a new stack...although I wish I could just jiggle something to get it to work correctly.

Thanks Klaus, for pointing me in the direction of reinstalling the newer version.