Re: Please help. cant get connector to work, unresolved external symbol error

[Bernie Sensation]

So after a good week or so of banging my head against a brick wall this is how it panned out...
I installed visual studio 2022 and c++ connector on my Windows 10 laptop. Btw, I was previously trying to get it working on my win10 desktop. On the lappy I did everything as above, and bam!, exact same error. Strange, how come it's doing the same on 2 diff machines, yet it appears that lots of people in the YouTube comments had no issues... Hmmmmmm!

Further investgation led me onto a comment by some dude called William

Basically - drop mysqlcppconn-9-vs14.dll into the main.cpp folder
And change the lib to mysqlcppconn.lib

That's the difference... And it worked.

I can't pretend to understand what exactly has happened here, I need to go away and do some reading. Here are the full settings just in case anyone runs into a similar issue

Put in .exe directory
\mysql-connector-c++-8.0.29-winx64\lib64\mysqlcppconn-9-vs14.dll

Project Properties
C/C++
General
Additional Include Directories
\mysql-connector-c++-8.0.29-winx64\include\jdbc
Preprocessor
Preprocessor Definitions
STATIC_CONCPP;
Code Generation
Runtime Library
Multi-threaded DLL (/MD)
Linker
General
Additional Library Directories
\mysql-connector-c++-8.0.29-winx64\lib64\vs14
Input
Additional Dependencies
mysqlcppconn.lib