Hello everybody,

I’m working on “the CCS RFID Development Kit” which used PIC C
compiler. And I trying to establish a connection between the compiler
and MySQL but it didn’t work… its give errors on the included files
which named “string.h” and I have no idea how to connect to the
database by using C language.


Could anyone help..??

shamma al eisaei wrote:

What operating system is this?

If Linux, you will need to install many development packages that
contain the header files.



Oh, I see what a CCS RFID Development Kit is. Mmm.

What exactly are you trying to do? I think this is more than a simple
query (ha ha)

shamma al eisaei <shamma.aleisaei (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

You actually have two problems.

First you are trying to compile the MySQL C client library aka
Connector/C for your target platform. This requires a compiler
and runtime environment (libc) that is compatible with the POSIX
standard. I.e. the "string.h" header is part of POSIX.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_standard_library

Second you want to learn how to use Connector/C. You should RTFM:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/connector-c.html


But looking at http://www.ccsinfo.com/product_info....cts_id=RFIDkit
it seems you have lost already. In order to access a remote MySQL
server, your platform must support TCP. While it would be possible
to use the RS-485 interface on those prototype boards for networking,
I doubt you will be able to fit a TCP stack + MySQL client + RFID App
into a PIC16 target (the PIC16F876 has 8K words program memory).

I guess the best course is to invent your own protocol and connect the
RFID board via RS-485 with some application running on more potent
hardware (a PC?). This application could then connect to MySQL.


XL

Axel Schwenke wrote:

Not that it must alleviate the problem at hand, but I do wonder where you
got the "8K words program memory" from. AFAICS, the description for this
RS485 Prototyping Board says it features a _PIC16F628A_ chip, and a Web
search for that yields
<http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en010210> which
says that it has _3.5 KB_ Flash program memory.

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PointedEars

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars (AT) web (DOT) de> wrote:
I feel like James T. - asking you to shut up and/or use
your imagination.

Look closer!

The kit contains the RFID board with a label "PIC16F876"
and the RS-485-to-RS-232-converter board with the 16F628.

For a networked project, you would not use the converter
board at all. But you could replace that board with some-
thing more beefy (preferrably with onboard Ethernet) and
connect that to MySQL.


XL

Axel Schwenke wrote:

Kirk? ;-)

I did not know that imagination was required around here. I have asked a
question because something was unclear to me (sorry if it lacked a quotation
mark). Thank you for the clarification, despite the unnecessarily
condescending way in which it was provided.

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PointedEars