C++ / mysql Connector - undefined reference to get_driver_instance - already tried the easy stuff

Question

Yes this question has been asked before ... I\'ve tried everything mentioned in the previous answers. My setup is really straightforward so this shouldn\'t be so hard.

Answer 1

For me simply swapping the order of the last two arguments fixed this problem. I don't know why but the linker is able to find the function get_driver_instance if I specify the -lmysqlcppconn option at the end after the source file.

g++ -Wall -o firsttry_prog -I/usr/include/mysqlcppconn -L/usr/lib/mysqlcppconn firsttry.cpp -lmysqlcppconn

Also note that I took out the following options as I think they are redundant

-I/usr/local/boost_1_53_0  -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -l:libmysqlclient_r.so.18