Building MySQL plugin with MinGW

Previously I had to use reimp and dlltool like it is described in QTBUG-9250. However, with recent versions of Qt this is no longer required. Today I am building the MySQL plugin using the two attached batch-files. The complete process takes less than a minute.

I don't know what you have done to remove the need for reimp and dlltool but I first discovered that they were no longer needed when using Qt SDK 2010.02.01. Since then I have rebuild the plugin without reimp and dlltool with later Qt versions and on a brand new PC (without a separate MinGW installation).

To my astonishment I see that you have now included (in the Qt documentation) a description on how to build the MySQL plugin with MinGW using reimp and dlltool. Why? If this is a mistake please update the Qt documentation.

A second comment is that your description is rebuilding the complete Qt library (using configure and mingw32-make in the Qt root directory). To my knowledge that is a vaste of time. The only thing you need to build is the plugin and that can be done using qmake and mingw32-make in the "%QTDIR%\src\plugins\sqldrivers\mysql" directory. If reimp and dlltool is still required in some cases please update the Qt documentation to include the easiest solution.