Required Client Libraries
The SOCI MySQL backend requires MySQL's libmysqlclient client library.

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <soci/soci.h>
#include <soci/soci-config.h>
#include <soci/mysql/soci-mysql.h>
#include <exception>

using namespace soci;
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

	try
	{
		session sql("mysql", "db=db_name user=db_user password=db_password");
	}
	catch (exception const &e)
	{
		cerr << "Error: " << e.what() << '\n';
	}

	getchar();
    return 0;
}