fatal error mysql.h:No such file or directory during compilation

Question

I have the following code

#include 
#include 

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  printf(\"MySQL client version: %s\\n\",          


        

Answer 1

I come across the same error today, turn out that I forget to install package libmysqlclient-dev. After I install it with

sudo apt install libmysqlclient-dev

the error went away.