Howto: Connect MySQL server using C program API under Linux or UNIX

#include <mysql.h> #include <stdio.h> main() { MYSQL *conn; MYSQL_RES *res; MYSQL_ROW row; char *server = "localhost"; char *user = "root"; char *password = "PASSWORD"; /* set me first */ char *database = "mysql"; conn = mysql_init(NULL); /* Connect to database */ if (!mysql_real_connect(conn, server, user, password, database, 0, NULL, 0)) { fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", mysql_error(conn)); exit(1); } /* send SQL query */ if (mysql_query(conn, "show tables")) { fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", mysql_error(conn)); exit(1); } res = mysql_use_result(conn); /* output table name */ printf("MySQL Tables in mysql database:\n"); while ((row = mysql_fetch_row(res)) != NULL) printf("%s \n", row[0]); /* close connection */ mysql_free_result(res); mysql_close(conn); }

How do I compile and link program against MySQL libs?

MySQL comes with a special script called mysql_config. It provides you with useful information for compiling your MySQL client and connecting it to MySQL database server. You need to use following two options.
Pass --libs option - Libraries and options required to link with the MySQL client library.

$ mysql_config --libs
Output:

-L/usr/lib64/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -L/usr/lib64 -lssl -lcrypto

Pass --cflags option - Compiler flags to find include files and critical compiler flags and defines used when compiling the libmysqlclient library.
$ mysql_config --cflags
Output:

-I/usr/include/mysql -g -pipe -m64 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing

You need to pass above option to GNU C compiler i.e. gcc. So to compile above program, enter:
$ gcc -o output-file $(mysql_config --cflags) mysql-c-api.c $(mysql_config --libs)
Now execute program:
$ ./output-file
Output:

MySQL Tables in mysql database:
columns_priv
db
func
help_category
help_keyword
help_relation
help_topic
host
tables_priv
time_zone
time_zone_leap_second
time_zone_name
time_zone_transition
time_zone_transition_type
user 

 

Howto: Connect MySQL server using C program API under Linux or UNIX

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