Using MySQL in C++ in Visual Studio 2019

Question

I'm trying to use MySQL in my C++ program developed in Visual Studio 2019.

While trying include MySQL libraries with #include <cppconn/driver.h> (or anything else that is being included in the sample code in MySQL Documentation) it shows an error: "cannot open source file cppconn/driver.h".

So far I've installed and configured the following programs:

• MySQL Shell 8.0.22
• MySQL Connector C++ 8.0.22
• MySQL Installer for Windows - Community (used to install everything else)
• MySQL for Visual Studio 1.2.9
• MySQL Server 8.0.22
• MySQL Router 8.0.22
• MySQL Workbench 8.0.22 CE

I've already started a local MySQL server and the VS 2019 itself (not the programs written in it) can connect to it. Compiling C++ programs without MySQL also works fine.

I suspect that I need to show VS 2019 where to find these libraries, but I don't know how to do that. Can you help me with that?

Answer 1

So I re-run the installation of MySQL Connector C++ and chose the custom setup option. The Dll libraries were included, but Development Components were not. I changed that and magically a whole set of.h files that I was looking for appeared under the new "MySQL_Connector_C++_8.0/include" directory. I've promptly added those under Include Directories of my project.