Using ODBC on Linux to connect to MS SQL Server

Tomaz Borstnar tomaz.borstnar at over.net
Tue Aug 8 07:46:59 EDT 2000


At 20:37 7.8.00, you wrote:
>I am new to this list, so forgive me if this has been answered before.
>
>Has anyone successfully used the FreeTDS ODBC driver under Linux or any
>other Unix based system to connect to MS SQL?  I have gotten as far as

I can't even compile it under FreeBSD.

Some time later...
Well, seems like you need glib which is in FreeBSD ports (devel/glib12) and 
link /usr/local/bin/glib-config to glib2-config and use gmake.
Now it is time to test it. how do I do it? :-)

Any plans to support UnixODBC too? (already mailed author of UnixODBC to 
check freetds)

I installed in into unixodbc with odbcinst, but when I try to use it I get 
this:

[unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can't open lib 
'/usr/local/freetds/lib/libtdsodbc.so' : /usr/local/freetds/lib/libtd
sodbc.so: Undefined symbol "g__numeric_bytes_per_prec" (SQL-IM003)(DBD: 
db_login/SQLConnect err=-1) at 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd/DBI/Shell.pm line 743

Tomaz






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