Kyoto Tycoon provides API of the C++ language and it is available by programs conforming to the C++03 standard. As the header files of Kyoto Tycoon are provided as `ktutil.h', `ktremotedb.h', and so on, applications should include one or more of them accordingly to use the API. As the library is provided as `libkyototycoon.a' and `libkyototycoon.so' and they depends on underlying system libraries, linker options corresponding to them are required by the build command. The typical build command is the following.
$ g++ -I/usr/local/include example.cc -o example \ - -L/usr/local/lib -lkyototycoon -lkyotocabinet -lz -lstdc++ \ + -L/usr/local/lib -lkyototycoon -lkyotocabinet -lz \ -lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lrt -lpthread -lm -lc