You can either link your code with the dynamic libmysql.lib library, which is just a wrapper to load in libmysql.dll on demand, or link with the static mysqlclient.lib. For use the static library, add mysqlcppconn8-static.lib (or mysqlcppconn-static.lib for legacy code). If linking statically, the linker must find the link libraries (with.lib extension) for the required OpenSSL libraries.

Note To avoid potential crashes the build configuration of MySQL Connector/C++ should match the build configuration of the application using it. For example, do not use the release build of MySQL Connector/C++ with a debug build of the client application. Static library The MySQL Connector/C++ static library file is mysqlcppconn-static.lib. Casmate pro plotter drivers. This needs to be statically linked with your application.

You also need to link against the files libmysql.dll and libmysql.lib. Once linking has been successfully completed, the application will require access to libmysql.dll at run time. Dynamic library The MySQL Connector/C++ dynamic library file is mysqlcppconn.dll.

In order to build your client application you need to link it with the file mysqlcppconn.lib. At run time the application will require access to the files mysqlcppconn.dll and libmysql.dll. Building a MySQL Connector/C++ application with Microsoft Visual Studio Initially, the procedure for building an application to use either the static or dynamic library is the same. You then carry out some additional steps depending on whether you want to build your application to use the or library.

• By default CPPCONN_PUBLIC_FUNC is defined to declare functions to be compatible with an application that calls a DLL. If building an application to call the static library, you must ensure that function prototypes are compatible with this. In this case CPPCONN_PUBLIC_FUNC needs to be defined to be an empty string, so that functions are declared with the correct prototype. In the Project, Properties tree view, under C++, Preprocessor, enter CPPCONN_PUBLIC_FUNC= into the Preprocessor Definitions text field. • Under Linker, Input, add mysqlcppconn.lib into the Additional Dependencies text field. • The application will need to access the MySQL Connector/C++ Dynamic Linked Library at run time.

Therefore, mysqlcppconn.dll needs to be in the same directory as the application executable, or somewhere on the system's path. Copy mysqlcppconn.dll to the same directory as the application. Alternatively, extend the PATH environment variable using SET PATH=%PATH%;C: path to cpp. Alternatively, you can copy mysqlcppconn.dll to the Windows installation Directory, typically c: windows.

#include To build such code with Connector/C++ 8 without modifying it, add $MYSQL_CPPCONN_DIR/include/jdbc to the include path. The X DevAPI uses C++11 language features. For that reason enable C++11 support in the compiler using the -std=c++11 option when building code that uses X DevAPI. This is not needed for X DevAPI for C (which is a plain C API) nor for the legacy JDBC API which is based on plain C++. Note The legacy API requires Boost headers. The location of these headers needs to be added to the include path to correctly compile legacy code.

Only the headers from Boost are needed – the Boost libraries are not used during linking phase. Using the shared library Depending on the platform, the shared Connector/C++ library is named: • libmysqlcppconn8.so on Unix platforms (soname libmysqlcppconn8.so.1) • libmysqlcppconn8.dylib on the OSX platform (link name libmysqlcppconn8.1.dylib) • mysqlcppconn8-1-vsXX.dll on Windows platforms (with import library vsXX/mysqlcppconn8.lib, see for more details) This library implements the new X DevAPI and X DevAPI for C. Connector/C++ 8.0 also includes the legacy connector library libmsysqlcppconn(.so/.dylib/.dll) which implements the legacy JDBC4 API. To build code that uses new APIs, add -lmysqlcppconn8 to the linker options (add -lmysqlcppconn when building legacy code).

This requires that $MYSQL_CONCPP_DIR/lib or $MYSQL_CONCPP_DIR/lib64 (the latter on a 64-bit platform) is added to the linker path ( -L $MYSQL_CPPCONN_DIR/lib64 linker option). Due to ABI incompatiblities between different compiler versions, the code that uses Connector/C++ libraries should be built with the same compiler version as the connector itself. The information about compiler version used to build connector libraries can be found inside INFO_BIN file distributed with the connector. In principle a different version of the compiler can be used provided that it is ABI compatible, but it is difficult to determine which versions of the compiler are ABI compatible with each other. An example Makefile to build an application which uses Connector/C++ X DevAPI, with sources in app.cc is shown below. Cc -I./include -L./lib64 app.c -lmysqlcppconn8 -o app Note that the resulting code, even though it is compiled as plain C, will depend on the C++ runtime ( libstdc++).