This message is for those who are having difficulties compiling programs with MySQL++ on machines using Linux.

I noticed that others were having difficulty getting the examples to compile. In particular, mysql.h could not be found. I had the same problem initially as well. I initially installed MySQL using rpm. This installed the library files only. The include files were not installed. I then downloaded the source code to my /usr/local directory. Once this was complete, I was able to compile the program using the following command:

g++ myprog.cc -o myprog -I/usr/local/include/mysql/include -I/usr/include/sqlplus -L/usr/local/include/mysql/lib -L/usr/lib -lmysqlclient -lsqlplus

A make file would be useful here. Hope this helps. Please let me know if there is an easier way of doing this.