<p>Does anyone know of a simple way for a C++ program to communicate directly with a MySQL database?  I have looked at MySQL++ and found it to be very confusing.  If anyone knows of a very simple way of doing this, please let me know.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>P.S. I am developing on a Windows machine.  PHP and MySQL web web application setup.  C++ setup to talk to the serial port.  Thus why I need a way for C++ to talk to the MySQL database directly.</p>

Use the C API:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/c.html