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 the server and initializes any subsystems (mysys, InnoDB, and so forth) that the server uses. If this function is not called, the next call to mysql_init() executes mysql_server_init(). 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.

If you want to connect to an external server without starting the embedded server, you have to specify a negative value for argc.

The NULL-terminated list of strings in groups selects which groups in the option files are active. See Section 4.3.2, “Using Option Files”. For convenience, groups may be NULL, in which case the [server] and [embedded] groups are 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) {
  if (mysql_server_init(sizeof(server_args) / sizeof(char *),
                        server_args, server_groups))
    exit(1);

  /* Use any MySQL API functions here */

  mysql_server_end();

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Return Values

0 if okay, 1 if an error occurred.