From: Warren Young
Date: August 3 2007 11:54am
Subject: Re: Linker error in VC7 with mysql++ and std::string
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Martin Dommermuth wrote:
> 
> First I get 2 warnings:
> exceptions.h(44) : warning C4275: non dll-interface class 'exception' used
> as base 
> 			 for dll-interface class 'mysqlpp::Exception'

The only way I can think of for that to happen is if you aren't using 
the project files shipped with MySQL++.  Double click on mysql++.dsw and 
accept each time it offers to convert a file to the current file format.

> Some sources on the net say, that VC is a bit hypersensitive here. 

Yes, it is.  I know of no other tool chain that provides multiple 
immiscible sets of its standard libraries.

> And could anyone enlighten me on the "__declspec(dllimport)" stuff? 

Typical Microsoft brain damage?