Just installed elementary OS. How to get MySQl and C++ to work?

Question

I'm planning on coding using the distro. Which packages should i install?

Answer 1

install the g++, mysql-server and mysql-client packages, you can do that like this.

sudo apt-get install g++ mysql-server mysql-client

Answer 2

Ok. Let's see.

The package build-essential installs the C and C++ compilers along with the make tool and some headers.

You'll need mysql-server and mysql-client to have a local database and access it. You can try mariadb-server and mariadb-client too.

For the MySQL C++ connector/driver, there's the libmysqlcppconn-dev package. You'll need to add -lmysqlcppconn to the linker when compiling.

So... this should do:

sudo apt-get install build-essential mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlcppconn-dev