Newbie to C++ Database recomendations

[poporacer]

I am proficient at VB and VBA and database programming, however I need to write a program in Visual C++ 6.0 that will be used on both windows and linux machines. I have QT builder for the forms. I have searched for info on this without much luck. The program will need to read and write to a database. I have a couple of questions:

1) any recomendations on the database to use (I am very familiar with Access but am open to others) If something is recomended, are there any additional software/libraries I will need/distribute with my code and where to get them?

2) any FAQ's, tutorials, etc on the code references for database programming in C++ 6.0. ie, connection strings, DAO, DAO. I will be doing somewhat simple linking of the tables (trying to keep the table normalized)and reading and writing the data to the fields.

 

[ArkM]

1. Forget VC++ 6.0 now! Use Visual Studio 2008 or (may be)Code::Blocks IDE (with MinGW compiler on Windows). As far as I know Qt is integrated with VS 2003+.
2. Forget DAO (nevermore!): you need cross-platform application - no this obsolete MS Jet stuff on Linux.
3. Try MySQL DBMS. It has C/C++ cross-platform interfaces. There are lots of docs about MySQL programming in INET: Google is your friend...

 

[xwb]

Is this a disk based app or memory based app. If it is memory based, you could try sqlite. If you really want to stick to VS6, it will work on VS6.