MySQL C API

[Mark Borg]

Hi there!

I'm trying to run a program on FreeBSD (that's a unix-type OS) which creates/uses a MySQL database (also installed on FreeBSD). The program returns an error saying it cannot find mysql_field_count. I looked up mysql_field_count and found out it's a function in the C API of MySQL, so the I concluded the problem must either be an incorrect/missing reference to the API or the API itself is missing from my system.

I need to know the path/filename of the API to try to solve the problem. The MySQL manual says: "The C API code is distributed with MySQL. It is included in the mysqlclient library and allows C programs to access a database." Still, there is no mention of what the filename is.

I found these files in the lib folder:
libdbug.a libmysqlclient.a libmysys.a
libheap.a libmysqlclient.la libnisam.a
libmerge.a libmysqlclient.so libvio.a
libmyisam.a libmysqlclient.so.14
libmyisammrg.a libmystrings.a

I'm thinking libmysqlclient might be the MySQL C API, but I'm not sure...

Thanks,
Mark