How to connect C++ with MySQL

I started developing a C++ (not visual C++) application and it required database connection to MySQL database server,but i'm not able to find any complete and expanded example about how to connect, and where to download a driver if necessary.I found this link and i can't figure it out to proceed farther

I'm using g++ c++0x compiler in Ubuntu 14.04

I familiarize with Java, I'm now to C++