- --cflags - Display the include directory flags needed to access MySQL header files and other C compiler flags that might be necessary. 
- --embedded, --embedded-libs - These options are synonyms for --libmysqld-libs. 
- --include - Display the include directory flags needed to access MySQL header files. The --cflags option is more general and normally is used in preference to --include. 
- --libmysqld-libs - Display the library flags needed to link in libmysqld, the embedded server library. 
- --libs - Display the library flags needed to link in the client library. 
- --libs_r - Display the library flags needed to link in the thread-safe client library. 
- --socket - Display the default Unix socket file pathname. 
- --port - Display the default TCP/IP port number. 
- --version - Display the MySQL version string.