DBD::Sybase installation troubles

Mark Schaal mark at champ.tstonramp.com
Thu Oct 14 16:13:22 EDT 1999



You should get the most recent version of freetds (0.47) which will
work with DBD::Sybase.

"perldoc DBI" and "perldoc DBD::Sybase" will show you the documentation
of how to program using DBI.  You can also look at the test programs in
the DBD::Sybase 't' directory for examples.

> 
> Thank you.
> OK, I followed your suggestion (despite the fact I have no idea about how
> querying a MS SQL server from a Sybase driver :-( ), in particular what are
> the right specification for the port number on a NT machine?
> 
[...]
> 
> bash-2.02# make
> Making all in src
> make[1]: Entering directory `/users/vince/tmp/FREETDS/freetds/src'
> Making all in tds
> make[2]: Entering directory `/users/vince/tmp/FREETDS/freetds/src/tds'
> /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DPACKAGE=\"freetds\"
> -DVERSION=\"0.46\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1
> -DHAVE_STRFTIME=1 -DHAVE_SOCKET=1  -I. -I.  -I../../include    -g -O2
> -DHW_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DTDS42 -c mem.c

Hope that helps,

Mark
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