Accessing MySQL from C

Derrick Ryalls freebsd at fbsdsolutions.com
Tue Apr 20 11:59:52 PDT 2004


> 
> 
> In the last episode (Apr 20), Derrick Ryalls said:
> > I am trying to write a little program that will talk to my existing 
> > mysql db server (4.1.1), but am having compile issues.
> 
> You need -I/usr/local/include/mysql on your compile line, and 
> -L/usr/local/lib/mysql on your link line. 
> 
> gcc -I/usr/local/include/mysql -c sqltest.c
> gcc -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -o sqltest sqltest.o -lmysqlclient
> 
> If you are compiling and linking in one step, you need both.
> 
> gcc -I/usr/local/include/mysql -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -o 
> sqltest sqltest.c -lmysqlclient
> 
> -- 

Thank you very much, missed the -I option in the man completely, and I don't
think I tried -lmysqlclient.  I knew it was something simple!



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