Question

I compiled Connector/C from scratch, and when I try to connect using it, my_connect returns -1 and WSAGetLastError() == 2003

I have no clue what’s wrong, any ideas? I’ve tried googling but I can’t even find anything on what that error means.

    MYSQL *my = mysql_init(NULL);
    if(my)
    {
        MYSQL *result  = mysql_real_connect(my, strHost.c_str(), strUser.c_str(), strPass.c_str(), 
            strDB.c_str(), uiPort, NULL, 0);
    }

Edit: Odd, when I use 127.0.0.1 to connect rather than localhost, it works.

Answer 1

I’ve tracked the problem down to the MySQL C connector using the ipv6 getaddrinfo which returns ::1, I’m using an old mysql server version which doesn’t support ipv6.