MySQL database does support C program API just like PHP or perl.
The C API code is distributed with MySQL. It is included in the mysqlclient library and allows C programs to access a database.
Many of the clients in the MySQL source distribution are written in C. If you are looking for examples that demonstrate how to use the C API, take a look at these clients. One can find these in the clients directory in the MySQL source distribution.
<font color=#0033E6>Requirements</font>
Make sure you have development environment installed such as gcc, mysql development package etc. Following is the list summarizes the list of packages to compile program:
mysql: MySQL client programs and shared library
mysqlclient: Backlevel MySQL shared libraries (old libs)
mysql-devel: Files for development of MySQL applications (a must have)
mysql-server: Mysql server itselfgcc, make and other development libs: GNU C compiler
<font color=#0033E6>Sample C Program</font>
Following are the instructions that should work on any Linux distro or UNIX computer. Here is the small program that connects to mysql server and list tables from mysql database.
/* Simple C program that connects to MySQL Database server*/
#include <mysql.h>
#include <stdio.h>
main() {
MYSQL *conn;
MYSQL_RES *res;
MYSQL_ROW row;
char *server = "localhost";
char *user = "root";
char *password = "PASSWORD"; /* set me first */
char *database = "mysql";
conn = mysql_init(NULL);
/* Connect to database */
if (!mysql_real_connect(conn, server,
user, password, database, 0, NULL, 0)) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", mysql_error(conn));
exit(1);
}
/* send SQL query */
if (mysql_query(conn, "show tables")) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", mysql_error(conn));
exit(1);
}
res = mysql_use_result(conn);
/* output table name */
printf("MySQL Tables in mysql database:\n");
while ((row = mysql_fetch_row(res)) != NULL)
printf("%s \n", row[0]);
/* close connection */
mysql_free_result(res);
mysql_close(conn);
}
