connecting to mysql

[Randolph J. Schilling]

I'm new to both the Netbeans IDE and the gcc compiler and this is the
first time I've taken on a challenge bigger than a homework problem.
I'm reading the book by Dubois and working with his sampdb database.

I created a new C++ project, mysqla, and
I added Dubois's program /sampdb/capi/connect1.c to it.
There were a lot of "can't find header error" so I edited the project's properties
and directed the gcc compiler to /usr/include/mysql and that worked.
But the project still would not compile, get 7 or 8 errors like this one:

/home/rjs/CppProjects/MySQLa/connect1.c:23: undefined reference to
`mysql_server_init'.

`mysql_server_init' and all the other undefined references are names of function declared in /usr/include/mysql/mysql.h, which is properly included in connect1.c.

What am I missing? Thanks and many kind regards - Randy