If you haven't met mysql++ before, please take a look at the documentation in ../../doc/mysql++ before trying to play with these examples. Thank you. To compile a mysql++ program, o you have to have libmysqlclient installed on your system. It's provided by the mysql-client port/package. MySQL++ now needs MySQL 3.23 client libraries to run, so if you have old 3.22 libraries, please upgrade them. o you have to link your programs with the sqlplus library o you have to add "-D_FIX_FOR_BSD_" to your CXXFLAGS environment For example, you can try to compile simple1.cc with something like this c++ -D_FIX_FOR_BSD_ -I/usr/local/include/mysql -L/usr/local/lib -lsqlplus simple1.cc -o simple1 Happy mysql++'ing. -Miklos Niedermayer (mico@bsd.hu)