From: Warren Young Date: August 22 2006 11:48am Subject: Re: Still having pointer problems with mysqlpp examples. List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/5890 Message-Id: <44EAEF01.6050509@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gary Anderson wrote: > > resetdb gives the error: Unhandled exception at 0x7c81eb33 in > resetdb.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: std::bad_alloc at memory location > 0x0012ebb8.. It is trying to allocate a new string in the call: > con.create_db(kpcSampleDatabase) Are you still trying to build the examples using a different project than the example.dsw that comes with MySQL++? If so, try with the project we ship. If it works, then there is some difference in the build settings. Visual C++ is very particular that certain settings match exactly between the library and the executable linking to the library.