MySQL client libraries and include files from MySQL 4.0.0 or higher. (Preferably MySQL 4.0.16 or higher). This is required because MyODBC uses new calls and structures that exist only starting from this version of the library. To get the client libraries and include files, visit https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/.

The MySQL library must be configured with the --enable-thread-safe-client option. libmysqlclient installed as a shared library.

One of the following Unix ODBC driver managers must be installed:

If using a character set that isn't compiled into the MySQL client library (the defaults are: latin1 big5 czech euc_kr gb2312 gbk sjis tis620 ujis) then you need to install the mysql character definitions from the charsets directory into SHAREDIR (by default, /usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/charsets). These should be in place if you have installed the MySQL server on the same machine.