From: Warren Young
Date: August 10 2006 12:33pm
Subject: Re: configure: error: Could not find working MySQL client library!
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Radu Brehar wrote:
> 
> I'm new to mysql++ and would appreciate some help.
> when I want to install mysql++ when configuring with
> ./configure --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib
> --with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/include

Those --with flags should not be required.  MySQL++'s configure script 
already tries looking in those locations for the MySQL C library.

> I get the following error: configure: error: Could not
> find working MySQL client library!

Please analyze or post the contents of config.log.  It contains more 
information on why this happened.

Are you able to build applications using the C API yourself?

Why are you building MySQL from source, and not using a binary package 
for your operating system?