g++ 2.96 with Mysql++ 1.7.9

Hi,
I'm a newbie in MySQL and it's developement
I tried to run examples of MySQL++ API and compile with g++ 2.96.
It seems that this version of compiler is not supported.
I found a patch of MySQL++ to make it working with g++ 3.0, but I don't know 
how to apply this patch. I tried patch -pl < patchfile but asked me a strip 
count.
What does it means and how can I use my compiler to compile my code ?

Thanks
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