Installing MySQL++ on Slackware 8.1

Hello everybody,
I'm new to this list, just joined yesterday.
Anyway, I have a problem. I need to write an application in C++ that 
connects to a MySQL-database so naturally I downloaded MySQL++. It 
installed very nicely on my Windows-machine but when I tried to install the 
Linux-version on my Slackware-machine all I got was a bunch of errors. My 
MySQL-installation is from the binary-distribution and it has worked great 
this far. However, I just can't seem to get MySQL++ installed. Somebody 
told me to go get the Development-RPM from the MySQL-site and install that 
and that then installing MySQL++ should be no problem. Wrong. I still can't 
get the thing to install. All I get is a million different errors. I know 
others have had problems installing MySQL++ on Linux. Will someone PLEASE 
help me because I really need to get this working SOON. Some easy-to-follow 
line-by-line-instructions would be very nice, and I don't mean like in the 
README-file because obviously those instructions did not work for me. I've 
tried a million different online-forums to no avail so I'm getting very 
desperate here.

Daniel Löfquist



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