To configure MySQL with Visual Studio 2019, follow these steps:

int main() MYSQL* conn = mysql_init(nullptr); if (conn == nullptr) std::cerr << "mysql_init failed" << std::endl; return 1;

Key MySQL Connector/Net Install Steps

If you are developing a native Windows application that connects to a MySQL database using on a 64-bit (x64) architecture, you have likely run into the frustrating "Missing DLL" or "VCRUNTIME140_1.dll not found" errors.

Once the runtime is installed, you can download and run the MySQL Installer for Windows .

Getting the and MySQL Connector/C to work together is simply about matching the architecture (x64) and deploying the correct runtime libraries.