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  • From: Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>
  • To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] FreeTDS and WINE?
  • Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:58:57 -0600

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:53:36PM -0500, Lowden, James K wrote:

> > I've got a Windows app that I would really like to be able to
> > run under
> > WINE. The app starts, and is fine until it tries to connect
> > to a Microsoft
> > SQL Server. Normally we do this through WNTDBLIB.DLL. I've had no luck
> > getting that library working under WINE [...] I was
> > wondering if
> > any thought had been given to a bridge for WINE that would
> > catch TDS queries and use FreeTDS to send them over the network?

> No thought at all of a WINE bridge, to the best of my knowledge. You could
> compile FreeTDS as a Win32 binary, and see how it goes.

I've heard that the Wine team themselves have done some work on
interfacing with one of the existing Unix ODBC driver managers. Perhaps
that would be worth looking into -- at least as a source for ideas about
integrating dblib, if using the ODBC API is not an option?

--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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