From: Warren Young Date: April 21 2005 8:28pm Subject: Re: Not able to connect to Mysql now List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/4274 Message-Id: <42680CF5.6070803@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit chandra shekar wrote: > usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient That's the MySQL C API library. It is either not installed in a directory that ld can find on its own, or it is not installed at all. If the former, use the -L compiler switch to tell it where the library is at.