From: Warren Young Date: November 11 2009 3:51am Subject: Re: installing MySql/C++ in ubuntu 9.04 List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/8752 Message-Id: <4AFA34B4.2020108@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Keshava Krishna wrote: > and i have included the ../lib directories What is your exact compilation command? It worries me that you're apparently using relative paths. If you mean ".." as a kind of wild card, don't do that. ".." means something specific.