I’m trying to connect to MySQL from my C++ program and I have downloaded and configured the MySQL C++ Connector in my project but it keeps causing two weird errors. For context, below is my code:

try {
    driver = get_driver_instance();
    conn = driver->connect("tcp://localhost:3306", "root", "");
    if (conn) {
        cout << "Successfully Connected to MySQL Database!" << endl;
    }
    else {
        cerr << "Failed to Connect to MySQL Database." << endl;
    }
}
catch (SQLException& e) {
    cerr << "SQLException: " << e.what() << endl;
    cerr << "MySQL error code: " << e.getErrorCode() << endl;
    cerr << "SQLState: " << e.getSQLState() << endl;
}

In the console the output is:

SQLException: Unable to connect to (≈qK±:3306
MySQL error code: 0
SQLState:

And when I check visual studio I see the error displayed below that comes from a file called xstring on line 534:

Exception thrown at 0x00007FFF81BA0890 (ucrtbased.dll) in MyProgram.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00007F0045444F4D.

I’ve tried to replace ‘localhost’ with ‘127.0.0.1’ but there was still no luck and I just keep getting the same issue. I have no idea what could’ve caused this or how to fix it.