Subj : Re: Unresolved external '_mysql_init' is not in my source
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Robert Eberhardt
Date : Mon Aug 30 2004 03:40 pm

Ed Mulroy [TeamB] wrote:

> With the information given the most likely cause was the lack of an 
> import library.
> 
> Locate your source file that contains the call to the function 
> mysql_init
> For the purposes of this example I'll use source.cpp as its name
> 
> Run these two commands and compare the exact text of the symbols 
> containing the characters mysql_init
> 
>   tdump -m source.obj | grep -i "mysql_init"
>   tdump -m -ee mysqlplus.dll | grep -i "mysql_init"
> 
> Pay specific attention to if they both have leading underscores, to 
> case and to any other added characters.  If the DLL is missing the 
> leading underscore then it could be that it was built with __stdlib 
> calling convention.  If the source file symbol has added characters, 
> especially a trailing '$' followed by added characters, then it was 
> built as C++ and has a mangled name, was not built as extern "C".
I had found this:
MYSQL *         STDCALL mysql_init(MYSQL *mysql);

> 
> You posted here, in the newsgroup for the old Borland C++ compiler, 
> saying that you were using version 5.02, a version number unique to 
> Borland C++.
> 
> However the project options you show are unique to C++ Builder so you 
> are not using Borland C++ and not using version 5.02.  C++ Builder is 
sorry, the correct information is: Professional Version 5(Build 12.34) 
Update Pack 1

> covered in newsgroups with the word 'cppbuilder' in their name.  In 
> the future please post C++ Builder questions in a C++ Builder 
> newsgroup and mention the correct version of the compiler being used.
apology if I am unsuitable here

bye
Robert
> 
> .  Ed
> 
> 
>>Robert Eberhardt wrote in message
>>news:cguc8u$9jk$03$1@news.t-online.com...
>>
>>here my project options:
>><LIBFILES value="D:\Programme\Borland\CBuilder5\Lib\
>>MySQL\libmySQL.lib D:\Programme\Borland\CBuilder5\Lib\
>>MySQL\mysqlplus.lib"/>
>>
>>from what the compiler forms the external reference, in my source or 
>>headers is these don't contain?
>>
>>>
>>>>Robert Eberhardt wrote
>>>>I am using c++Builder 5.02 under Win2K. ...
> 
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>

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