head file include question about sqlpp11 HOT 3 CLOSED

It fails to include mysql.h from the libmysql library, not the one from the sqlpp distribution. The #include that fails is #include <mysql.h> (notice the angle brackets) so it looks for the one in the compiler's system path, not the one provided by sqlpp11.

It seems that the vcpkg repository entry for sqlpp11 lists the vcpkg library libmysql as a dependency of sqlpp11 (or rather of its mysql feature):

    "mysql": {
      "description": "Use MySQL connector",
      "dependencies": [
        "libmysql"
      ]
    },

For whatever reason the vcpkg package libmysql fails to install because it claims that their libmysql package is not supported on Windows/X86 or at least that is claimed by the error line that you quoted:

Error: libmysql[core] is only supported on '!(windows & x86) & !uwp'

I am not sure why this happens as I am not a vcpkg user. Maybe it tries somehow to install a really ancient version of libmysql vcpkg package or maybe one of the libmysql's dependencies does not support Windows/X86. It seems that other people had similar problems with the libmysql package on Windows:
microsoft/vcpkg#11214
and they just said that libmysql is not supported on Windows.

It makes sense to ask for help the maintainer of the libmysql vcpkg package and/or the maintainer of the sqlpp11 vcpkg package.

from sqlpp11.

Sorry, I have zero practical knowledge about vcpkg. I suggest contacting the maintainer of the vcpkg sqlpp11 package.

I'll leave this open for a few days in case other users of sqlpp11 can help.

from sqlpp11.

All I can do is suggest that you try conan.io instead of vcpkg
I have switched to conan for a personal project (unrelated) due to such type of issues specifically on Windows.

from sqlpp11.