[freetds] FreeTDS and WINE?

Bort, Paul pbort at tmwsystems.com
Mon Feb 3 16:22:43 EST 2003


Thank you all for some interesting ideas. The only limitation I should have
mentioned is that the application is specifically NOT using ODBC, and isn't
going to start anytime soon.

It sounds like the next step is to find out how/why the app is finding and
using NTWDBLIB and see what it would take to marry FreeTDS to that method. 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lowden, James K [mailto:LowdenJK at bernstein.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 4:17 PM
> To: 'freetds at lists.ibiblio.org'
> Subject: RE: [freetds] FreeTDS and WINE?
> 
> 
> > From: Craig Davison [mailto:cd at securityfocus.com]
> > Sent: February 3, 2003 4:00 PM
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:53:36PM -0500, Lowden, James K wrote:
> > > Libraries built with with cygwin don't require cygwin to be 
> > installed at
> > > runtime; you just need cygwin's runtime dll.  That would be 
> > a good bet for
> > > you, because it would bypass WINE completely, is known to 
> > work, and we
> > > intend to keep it working as long as people find it useful.  
> > 
> > ? cygwin is still layered overtop of WINE as any other DLL 
> > would be. 
> 
> Ah, silly of me.  Quite so.  
> 
> The more I think about this, the easier it seems.  Just a bit 
> of metacoding,
> really, writing a .spec file and running the existing code through
> "winebuild" to produce a "non-native DLL" -- something that 
> behaves as a DLL
> to the application but uses the OS's system calls.  
> 
> http://www.winehq.com/Docs/wine-devel/architecture.shtml
> 
> In my spare time....
> 
> --jkl
> 
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