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Linking C++ program to a C++ library

Vernon Brown_4 — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:40:14 GMT

I'm writing a simple little C++ program to act as a driver between a web browser and a MySQL database. This script compiles the program without error, but calls to MySQL functions fail, indicating that the MySQL client library is not linked.

g++ admacct.cpp /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.15

mv a.out /var/www/cgi-bin/admacct.cgi

Does anyone have a clue about how to set up the include path for compiling C++ programs. I'm searching the documentation at:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/index.html

Any clue greatly appriciated.

Re: Linking C++ program to a C++ library

Vernon Brown_4 — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:21:55 GMT

Follow up: I think I only have to find out what goes into the #Include <....> statement. So far I've tried every combination of:
#Include
that I can guess. I have not been able to find any of the source files for mysql clients. I'm sure these would all have that include statement in them.

Re: Linking C++ program to a C++ library

Heironimus — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:53:15 GMT

Tou're best off using the mysql_config script to get the compile and link flags you need. The MySQL documentation talks about that in the section on compiling clients for the C API.

That's not the right syntax to link against a shared library, though it probably should work. You should use "-lmysqlclient_r", but you probably also need a "-lz" and possibly a few others.

Assuming that you're using the standard MySQL client library, the include file you want is probably mysql.h, but it might be under /usr/include/mysql instead of just /usr/include.

Re: Linking C++ program to a C++ library

Vernon Brown_4 — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:30:08 GMT

Thanks; you nailed it !!

The .h includes are located in /usr/include/mysql

I used quotes instead of the left and right brackets and it worked !!

#include "/usr/include/mysql/mysql.h"

Re: Linking C++ program to a C++ library

Vernon Brown_4 — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:31:47 GMT

Problem solved