C and MySQL
If you're using C to write MySQL database applications, you will need the C API to communicate with the MySQL server. Like all APIs, it is the lowest common denominator for passing instructions and information between your application and a MySQL database.
The C API is distributed with MySQL. Unlike other languages, such as Perl with its DBI, there is no need to download or install it separately.
The administrative clients that come with MySQL, such as the mysql client program, are written in C and based on this API. If you installed MySQL from source, you may be interested to look at the C code of these programs, which you'll find in your MySQL source directory, in mysql-VERSION/client.
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