From: Warren Young
Date: January 11 2012 8:37am
Subject: Re: new to mysql++, can't get example database set up
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On Jan 10, 2012, at 10:55 PM, John Tate wrote:

> You didn't need to uninstall the packages, try putting them back

??  If installing binary versions of MySQL++ was a prerequisite for =
getting source tarballs of MySQL++ to work, we'd have an impossible =
chicken-and-egg situation.

Having two versions of MySQL++ installed is possible, but requires =
careful -I and -L flag management to ensure you don't "cross the =
streams".

I wouldn't recommend that a newbie have two versions installed.

>> I looked around and found that someone had this problem (or a problem =
like
>> it) in september, and the recommended fix was adding #include =
<stddef.h> to
>> refcounted.h and #include <cstring> to genv2.cpp.

You can get these fixes for free by using the svn version of MySQL++ =
instead of the last-released tarball.

>> //cut out several lines of what looks like things going smoothly

Seeing some of them might help.

>> ./libmysqlpp_ssqls2parse.a(ssqls2parse_parsev2.o): In function =
`Type':
>> /home/~/mysql++-3.1.0/./ssx/parsev2.cpp:256: undefined reference to
>> `mysqlpp::internal::str_to_lwr(std::basic_string<char,

This suggests that libmysqlpp.a can't link to libmysqlpp.so.  This is =
why I think the actual error might be a bit higher up.  This looks like =
collateral damage to me.=