From: Paul DuBois
Date: March 21 1999 7:39pm
Subject: Re: Compiler Trouble.
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At 1:02 PM -0600 3/21/1999, Thomas R. Bedell wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>This is probably pretty dumb but...
>
>Does anybody see a problem with the following code????
>
>
>/* Establish Connection to MySQL Server */
>
>#include "mysql.h"
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <stdlib.h>
>
>MYSQL mysql;
>
>main()
>{
>   mysql_init(&mysql);
>
>  /* my prog here */
>
>   return 0;
>}
>
>
>When I try to comple I get...
>
>[trbedell@oscar c]# gcc -o connect mysql.c
>/tmp/cca034371.o: In function `main':
>/tmp/cca034371.o(.text+0x9): undefined reference to `mysql_init'
>[trbedell@oscar c]#
>
>
>USING: Redhat 5.1, MySQL 3_22_20a, (I have installed  Bench, Client and
>Devel packages also) and glibc-2_0_7-19.

1) You need to link withthe MySQL client library.  Add -lmysqlclient to
your command.
2) If that library isn't installed in some directory that your linker
searches by default, add -L/path/to/directory before the -lmysqlclient
argument.  Otherwise it won't find the library.

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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
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