From: Warren Young
Date: July 12 2007 10:41pm
Subject: Re: Problem compiling MySQL++ with MinGW
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Janne Kätevä wrote:
> 
> if exist libmysqlpp_util.a del libmysqlpp_util.a
> Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "then")
> mingw32-make: *** [libmysqlpp_util.a] Error 2

This suggests you're running make from within some sort of Unixy 
environment (Cygwin or MSYS?), or that there is an "if" program in your 
path.  You need to run it from a vanilla Windows cmd.exe shell to get 
proper handling of the "if" statements in the Makefile.

> This command generates mysqlpp.dll file, but I don't think it works (I 
> mean I don't know how to use/test it because the instruction doesn't say 
> how to do that...).

Read README.examples