From: Warren Young Date: February 26 2009 10:19pm Subject: Re: building a project with dev-cpp List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/8424 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Feb 26, 2009, at 2:35 PM, s=F8ren pedersen wrote: > the linker errors i get is: > [Linker error] undefined reference to > `_imp___ZN7mysqlpp10ConnectionC1EPKcS2_S2_S2_j' C++ compilers deliberately do not create link-compatible libraries. =20 (See Stroustrup's book on the design of the C++ language for the =20 rationale.) You have to build MySQL++ with MinGW to link it to a =20 program built with MinGW.=