-----Original Message----- From: AJ Coon [mailto:aj...@rivar.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 8:23 AM To: plus...@lists.mysql.com Subject: building my own application

Hi. I have been working with MySQL from a DBA perspective for over a year now. I'm also a *decent* C++ coder. However I'm new to MySQL++, and I cannot seem to find documentation for my question, so I'm giving it to the list to answer for me.

I wrote my own test application, just to get acquainted with the API and build process. The coding was rather easy. Linking, however, is getting to be a bit painful. I've worked with static (.a) and shared (.so) libs before with C/C++, but this *libtool* program is new to me. How can i write a simple makefile target that compiles my .cpp file and then links against the mysql libs? this is what i've tried:

all :

c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/home/aj/packages/mysql++-1.7.9/sqlplusint -I/usr/loca l/mysql/include/mysql -g -O2 -c easy.cpp /bin/sh libtool --mode=link c++ -g -O2 -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -o easy easy.o /home/aj/packages/mysql++-1.7.9/sqlplusi nt/libsqlplus.la -lz -lmysqlclient

That COMPILES and LINKS with no errors, no warnings. But here are my two problems:

1. I would rather not learn two things at once right now (MySQL++ & libtool). Is there any way I can use MySQL++ as an .so? 2. When I run easy (my application), I get this error:

lt-easy: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory

Well, what is "lt-easy"? I ran a program called easy!?!! Again, this must be part of this libtool crap. And what .so is it looking for?

I'm not a happy camper. Someone please help me get out of my funk here...

thanks,