On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:15:57 +0100, Stefan Kristensen wrote: > Hello my experienced friends. > > As previously stated, I'm refreshing my C++ on a FreeBSD box and the > basics are pretty much in place now. So time to move on: Accessing MySQL > databases from C++. > As I see it, there is a wrapper class that makes it somewhat easier than > using the C API. But already at the #include "mysql.h" line, I get an > error: No such file or directory. I have installed MySQL and MySQL++1 > (MySQL++ reported something as broken) and can see mysql.h in > /usr/local/include/mysql > > So: How do I tell g++ where to look for include files?
Most likely /usr/local/include will be on the include path for your g++ by default, so: #include "mysql/mysql.h" should work. Otherwise, you can tell g++ to search a directory for included headers via the -I flag. See: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.2.2/gcc/Directory-Options.html for details. Cheers, -- Lionel B _______________________________________________ help-gplusplus mailing list help-gplusplus@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gplusplus