Building Embedded Server Programs
If you followed the example given today and successfully built and ran the program, you have created a standalone application with an entire MySQL database server inside it.
Combining this with a knowledge of C, you should now be able to build your own embedded applications. Although the example given was carried out on a Linux platform, the principle is the same for compiling on Windows or any other OS.
There is room in this book for only a practical introduction to this subject. If you want to build serious applications, study the MySQL Technical Reference for more details on the behavior of the C API and its function calls.
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