From: Paul DuBois Date: March 19 1999 9:02pm Subject: Re: [MySQL] link error List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/644 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 2:54 PM -0600 3/19/1999, RaymanJ@stripped wrote: >Hello, > I am testing out how to connect to MySQL with a C program. This is >the first >time for me to do this. > Problem: > When ever I compile my program it gives me an error message >as below. > >/var/tmp/ccyP17051.o: Undefined symbol `_mysql_connect' referenced from text >seg You need to add -lmysqlclient to your link command. If the library is stored in a non-standard place, you may need to precede that argument with -L/path/to/non-standard/place so the linker can find it. -- Paul DuBois, paul@stripped Northern League Chronicles: http://www.snake.net/nl/