My Sweet Programming: How to configure C++ with MySQL database in Visual C++

Things to consider:

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008
MySQL Connector odbc
Wamp or Xamp must be started and make sure that MySQL is started too.
otl from http://otl.sourceforge.net/

Download and Install MySQL Connector odbc from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/
Open your control panel->Administrative Tools->Data Sources ODBC

Under User DSN Click Add

choose MySQL ODBC you want to use and then click finish

Then

Download otlv4_h2.zip from http://otl.sourceforge.net/

Extract otlv4_h2.zip to C:/ directory

Open your Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, and go to File->New Project->Visual C++->Win32->Win32 Console Application. press ok after writing Name of the project as tatiana

Double click tatiana.cpp from source files and copy and paste the following code to it.

// tatiana.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.

#include "stdafx.h"

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

#include <stdio.h>

#include <string.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#define OTL_ODBC_MYSQL // Compile OTL 4.0/ODBC/MySQL

// #define OTL_ODBC_UNIX // uncomment this line if UnixODBC is used

#include <otlv4.h> // include the OTL 4.0 header file

otl_connect db; // connect object

void insert()

// insert rows into table

{

otl_stream o(1, // buffer size should be == 1 always on INSERT

"insert into test_tab values(:f1<int>,:f2<char[31]>)",

// SQL statement

db // connect object

);

char tmp[32];

for(int i=1;i<=100;++i){

sprintf(tmp,"Name%d",i);

o<<i<<tmp;

}

void update(const int af1)

// insert rows into table

{

otl_stream o(1, // buffer size should be == 1 always on UPDATE

"UPDATE test_tab "

" SET f2=:f2<char[31]> "

" WHERE f1=:f1<int>",

// UPDATE statement

db // connect object

);

o<<"Name changed"<<af1;

o<<otl_null()<<af1+1; // set f2 to NULL

}

void select(const int af1)

{

// MyODBC does not allow any input bind variables in the WHERE clause

// in a SELECT statement.

// Therefore, the SELECT statement has to be generated literally.

char stmbuf[1024];

sprintf(stmbuf,

"select * from test_tab where f1>=%d and f1<=%d*2",

af1,

af1

);

otl_stream i(50, // buffer size may be > 1

stmbuf, // SELECT statement

db // connect object

);

// create select stream

int f1;

char f2[31];

while(!i.eof()){ // while not end-of-data

i>>f1;

cout<<"f1="<<f1<<", f2=";

i>>f2;

if(i.is_null())

cout<<"NULL";

else

cout<<f2;

cout<<endl;

}

int main()

{

otl_connect::otl_initialize(); // initialize ODBC environment

try{

db.rlogon("UID=root;PWD=;DSN=tester"); // connect to ODBC

// db.rlogon("scott/tiger@mysql"); // connect to ODBC, alternative format

// of connect string

otl_cursor::direct_exec

(

db,

"drop table test_tab",

otl_exception::disabled // disable OTL exceptions

); // drop table

otl_cursor::direct_exec

(

db,

"create table test_tab(f1 int, f2 varchar(30))"

); // create table

insert(); // insert records into the table

update(10); // update records in the table

select(8); // select records from the table

}

catch(otl_exception& p){ // intercept OTL exceptions

cerr<<p.msg<<endl; // print out error message

cerr<<p.stm_text<<endl; // print out SQL that caused the error

cerr<<p.sqlstate<<endl; // print out SQLSTATE message

cerr<<p.var_info<<endl; // print out the variable that caused the error

}

db.logoff(); // disconnect from ODBC

system("pause");

return 0;

}

Right click your project and go to property->Configuration Properties->C/C++->General->Additional Include directory....

Add the path of otlv4_h2 as shown below:-