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NAME
       mysql_config - get compile options for compiling clients

SYNOPSIS
       mysql_config options

DESCRIPTION
       mysql_config provides you with useful information for compiling your
       MySQL client and connecting it to MySQL.

       mysql_config supports the following options:

	 --cflags

	  Compiler flags to find include files and critical compiler flags and
	  defines used when compiling the libmysqlclient library.

	 --include

	  Compiler options to find MySQL include files. (Note that normally
	  you would use --cflags instead of this option.)

	 --libmysqld-libs, --embedded

	  Libraries and options required to link with the MySQL embedded
	  server.

	 --libs

	  Libraries and options required to link with the MySQL client
	  library.

	 --libs_r

	  Libraries and options required to link with the thread-safe MySQL
	  client library.

	 --port

	  The default TCP/IP port number, defined when configuring MySQL.

	 --socket

	  The default Unix socket file, defined when configuring MySQL.

	 --version

	  Version number for the MySQL distribution.


If you invoke mysql_config with no options, it displays a list of all options
that it supports, and their values:

   shell> mysql_config
   Usage: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config [options]
   Options:
     --cflags	      [-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql -mcpu=pentiumpro]
     --include	      [-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql]
     --libs	      [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz
		       -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -L/usr/lib -lssl -lcrypto]
     --libs_r	      [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient_r
		       -lpthread -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lpthread]
     --socket	      [/tmp/mysql.sock]
     --port	      [3306]
     --version	      [4.0.16]
     --libmysqld-libs [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqld -lpthread -lz
		       -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lpthread -lrt]

You can use mysql_config within a command line to include the value that it
displays for a particular option. For example, to compile a MySQL client
program, use mysql_config as follows:

   shell> CFG=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
   shell> sh -c "gcc -o progname $CFG --cflags progname.c $CFG --libs"

When you use mysql_config this way, be sure to invoke it within backtick ()
characters. That tells the shell to execute it and substitute its output into
the surrounding command.

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SEE ALSO
       msql2mysql(1), my_print_defaults(1), myisam_ftdump(1), myisamchk(1),
       myisamlog(1), myisampack(1), mysql(1), mysql.server(1),
       mysql_explain_log(1), mysql_fix_privilege_tables(1),
       mysql_tzinfo_to_sql(1), mysql_upgrade(1), mysql_zap(1), mysqlaccess(1),
       mysqladmin(1), mysqlbinlog(1), mysqlcheck(1), mysqld(8),
       mysqld_multi(1), mysqld_safe(1), mysqldump(1), mysqlhotcopy(1),
       mysqlimport(1), mysqlmanager(8), mysqlshow(1), perror(1), replace(1),
       safe_mysqld(1)

       For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which
       may already be installed locally and which is also available online at
       http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.

AUTHOR
       MySQL AB (http://www.mysql.com/).  This software comes with no
       warranty.



MySQL 5.0			  12/20/2006		       MYSQL_CONFIG(1)