Prerequisite: Install MySQL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Before you can build MySQL++, you need to install the libmysqlclient-devel package with Cygwin's setup.exe. In the past, you had to build MySQL from source, since there was no reliable place to get a binary version of the client library for Cygwin. If you must still do this for some reason, here's a hint on how to build just the client library, since you probably will be running either a native Windows version of the server, or have the server installed on another machine entirely: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \ --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --disable-shared --without-{debug,readline,libedit,server} Building the Library and Example Programs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Having done that, Cygwin behaves like any other Unixy system. See the instructions in README-Unix.txt.