Mysql and C Programming

[carlg]

I am trying to write an application that uses the C programming language with mysql as a database.

I know there is a C programmers API out there and I see all of the documentation out there about it.

All of this documentation states that I should have a file out there called mysql.h

I also should have a library out there called mysqlclient.

I don't have either of these.

I did not install my mysql from binary or source distributiuons. I have Fedora 5 and I used their package management tool to install mysql.

I don't even have a /usr/local/mysql directory. My mysql executable is in /usr/bin

What do I need to do to my mysql installation to get it to work with C Programming?

THanks for the help

Carl

 

[TonyGroves]

You would need to get the MySQL source (and build-dependencies) packages - the same versions as your server. I don't know how Fedora manages that, though I'd imagine it's quite easily available from the Fedora repository.

The location of your MySQL binaries is defined in /etc/mysql/my.cnf . No doubt it points to the correct location.

 

[KarveR]

by default on RH ES/3 mysql.h is located in /usr/include/mysql/

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[sleipnir214]

If I were installing packages, I would have to install a "mysql-devel..." package, wouldn't I?



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[carlg]

Think I got it to work

I did the following

yum install mysql-devel


And this installed everything I needed

Thanks for the help

Carl