Compile error with Visual Studio .net 2003.

[J.F. Gratton]

I might be unfamiliar with Visual Studion .NET 2003 (Visual C++) as I'm more familiar with Unix than Windows, so if someone can help me ...


I'm trying a very simple MySQL client that connects to a remote db on the LAN.

To make things simple I've put #include <mysql.h> into stdafx.h

The MySQL include and lib dirs have been added to VC++ environment (Tools Menu, Options, Projects, VC++ Directories, etc etc).

In the project properties I've added libmysqlclient.lib in the linker inputs.

As soon as I try to build the project (right now it only does mysql_init and mysql_close, to validate everything so far), I get multiple compile errors such as:

C2146: syntax error: missing ';' before identifier "fd" in file c:\program files\mysql\mysql server 4.1\include\mysql_com.h line 155 ...

It seems that I'm missing some header files, or that I have to put them in a specific order. The files are not corrupted (I've reinstalled everything from scratch, to make sure).


Any ideas, anyone ? Looks more like a VC++ problem than the code itself, but.. oh well :)


Regards,

Jeff