Make, Gcc And Mysql Compilation
 

My make command is failing.

I have taken the embedded server command example from the mysql documentation plus the make command.

error is ..

/usr/bin/ld cannot find -lmysqlclient
collect 2 : ld returned 1 exit status

ANy ideas ?

I am using redhat 7.3. Mysql is installed.
I am a newbie.

Do I need to set my PATH to something ?
Is mysqlclient supposed to be a filename or a function within a file name ?
Presumably MYSQL does not need to be running at compilation time ?
Maybe I need to configure MYSQL to use an embed option - but surely this would cause a runtime error rather than MAKE compilation error.

Any ideas ? (ps. make confuses me entirely).

well what the error literally means is that it can not find the mysqlclient library. it is after a file called libmysqlclient.so.10 (10 is thie most recent afaik) this could come from a number of places, depending on where you are installnig from. if it's from rpm on redhat then it should be in the mysql-3.23.49-3.i386.rpm package. do a locate or find for the file (eg find / -iname libmysql*) and see what turns up. if it's not there, install it, if it is then ensure that it's path is defined in /etc/ld.so.conf (the rpm info on rpmfind.net says it should be at /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10 for your system). so add /usr/lib/mysql and try again, after running ldconfig.