From: Warren Young Date: February 25 2009 8:44pm Subject: Re: compiling the manual code List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/8416 Message-Id: <49A5AD90.7040809@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit søren pedersen wrote: >>> This particular routine is in a convenience library built along with > MySQL++ to make the example code clearer. > > but isn't this library the before mentioned mysqlpp.lib? No. VC++ calls it excommon.lib. It's not meant to be used by your own code. It exists only to hold some common functions used by most of the examples, so we don't have to duplicate them, or spend time explaining it in the Tutorial chapter of the user manual.