From: Warren Young Date: April 13 2006 11:43am Subject: Re: Linker error: unresolved external symbol (2.1.1) List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/5639 Message-Id: <443E3969.7050908@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Roi wrote: > connection.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _mysql_shutdown@4 @4 implies that it's compiled to expect the old mysql_shutdown() signature, but not finding it in the library. Is there any chance you have mixed library and header files, with the headers coming from earlier than v4.1.3 and the library coming from that version or later?