9.1.11.1 mysql_server_init()

int mysql_server_init(int argc, char **argv, char **groups)

Description

This function must be called once in the program using the embedded server before calling any other MySQL function. It starts up the server and initialises any subsystems (mysys, InnoDB, etc.) that the server uses. If this function is not called, the program will crash. If you are using the DBUG package that comes with MySQL, you should call this after you have called MY_INIT().

The argc and argv arguments are analogous to the arguments to main(). The first element of argv is ignored (it typically contains the program name). For convenience, argc may be 0 (zero) if there are no command-line arguments for the server. mysql_server_init() makes a copy of the arguments so it's safe to destroy argv or groups after the call.

The NULL-terminated list of strings in groups selects which groups in the option files will be active. See section 4.1.2 `my.cnf' Option Files. For convenience, groups may be NULL, in which case the [server] and [emedded] groups will be active.

Example

#include <mysql.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

static char *server_args[] = {
  "this_program",       /* this string is not used */
  "--datadir=.",
  "--key_buffer_size=32M"
};
static char *server_groups[] = {
  "embedded",
  "server",
  "this_program_SERVER",
  (char *)NULL
};

int main(void) {
  mysql_server_init(sizeof(server_args) / sizeof(char *),
                    server_args, server_groups);

  /* Use any MySQL API functions here */

  mysql_server_end();

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Return Values

0 if okay, 1 if an error occurred.

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