From: Warren Young Date: December 3 2007 3:10pm Subject: Re: Annoying question from a noob List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/7226 Message-Id: <47541C7C.1090903@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kun Niu wrote: > Try -L/usr/local/lib No. The problem is because he isn't linking to the libutil convenience library, but a MySQL++ user shouldn't have to care about that. My previous advice stands: build the examples using the stock Makefiles.