I'm sure these are just c++ errors as opposed to anything mysql++
related - if so you should follow this up on a c++ list somewhere.
Error 1, exactly what it says on the tin, constructors can't return a
value of any type so just remove the "return -1;". Personally, I'd let
whatever instanciates DatabaseControl handle the exception (or at least
re-throw it), but otherwise making that change will correct the error.
I think error 2 is because "con" is a pointer, probably you need to use
con->query(). I think error 3 you're missing the header file for
mysqlpp::Connection.
Also, because you're shadowing the "con" member variable in the
constructor it is probably not allocated anywhere. Result: app will
probably crash when you call getCommands or DatabaseControl goes out of
scope :) Enjoy more, and turn on -Wshadow to have the compiler let you
know about it. Turn on -Wall for that matter :)
Joel