Getting the correct combination of the and the MySQL Connector/C is critical.
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// Optional: connect to a real DB // mysql_real_connect(conn, "localhost", "user", "pass", "db", 3306, nullptr, 0);
#include <iostream> #include <mysql.h> int main() MYSQL* conn = mysql_init(nullptr); if (conn == nullptr) std::cerr << "mysql_init failed" << std::endl; return 1;
std::cout << "MySQL library loaded successfully (x64)!" << std::endl; mysql_close(conn); return 0;