[freetds] building on Windows

Paul Thurston pthurston at netegrate.com
Fri Dec 18 16:18:17 EST 2009


Building FreeTDS on Windows is quite a chore.

I recently did a successful native build in Windows 2008 and Vista
Enterprise.

There are some code bugs in the build (particularly in the net.c file) which
don't handle Windoze socket initialization.

Minimally, you'll need a compiler, at least Visual Studio VC6 or above. I
used VC9.

 

 

I don't recommend gong the cygwin route. The performance hit is substantial.

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: freetds-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:freetds-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Craig A. Berry
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:14 PM
To: FreeTDS Development Group
Subject: Re: [freetds] building on Windows

 

 

On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Ryan Perry wrote:

 

> I'm using Strawberry perl on Windows to connect to MSSQL.  On the

> machine I want to build on I don't think I have a compiler of any kind

> (maybe perl installed one?).  I want to connect using DBD::Sybase, but

> I don't understand how to install FreeTDS on Windows (I usually live

> in unix land).  Some guidance would be much appreciated...

 

I'm pretty sure recent versions come with gcc via mingw, though the  

home page at <http://strawberryperl.com/> is rather devoid of actual  

information about what's in it.  I would say try to get to a shell  

prompt, pretend it's not Windows, and see what blows up.  Apparently  

it comes with DBD::ODBC, so that may be another option if DBD::Sybase  

proves troublesome (but you'd still need FreeTDS's driver).

 

________________________________________

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mailto:craigberry at mac.com

 

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  difficult than getting in."

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