FreeTDS Development Group

["Mark J. Lilback" <mark AT lilback.com>]

At 12:52 AM +0000 6/24/01, James K. Lowden wrote:
> Hi Gabriel,
>
> gricard AT mac.com wrote:
>
> >  I've got a system running OSX. I managed to get FreeTDS compiled
> >  and installed and then compiled PHP 4.0.5 with the FreeTDS libraries. I
> >  cannot seem to get it to connect to the DB. I need to connect to an MS
> >  SQL Server running 6.5. It appeared from the documentation that I should
> >  use version 4.2, which I am. My interfaces entry looks like this:
> >
> >  mssqldb
> >      query tcp tds4.2 a.b.c.d 1433
> >      master tcp tds4.2 a.b.c.d 1433
>
> Your configuration is known to work; it's almost certainly a 
> configuration issue.

Are you sure about that? Yes, I and others are using FreeTD with 
MacOS X. But I've yet to hear of anyone getting it to work with PHP. 
Maybe PHP 4.0.5 fixed something, but 4.0.4 wouldn't compile.

MacOS X has a dynamic binding mechanism that causes problems with 
porting some unix code, particularly when it will be dynamically 
loaded (i.e. getting database drivers to load in perl/mod_perl when 
they are already compiled into apache via php).

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