Import/Export issues

A MySQL Storage engine requires functions that MySQL provides. Therefore, you normally need to link it into mysqld-core under Windows because mysqld.exe doesn't export all required functions (because it's an .exe, not a .dll). So, you're unable to import the required functions in our Plugin. Learn a possible way to circumvent this limitation by using the .map files that are provided with MySQL.

Learn how to develop and use multi platform plugins easily using the Simple Plugin Layer (SPL) Library.

This article demonstrates an approach to utilizing Delphi codes in VC applications by converting Delphi DLL into static libraries with DLL to Lib. So in this way you can distribute your apps without extra DLLs.

Explicitly Linking to Classes in DLL's