FreeTDS Development Group

[Gabriel Ricard <gricard AT mac.com>]

How did you and others get it to build on OSX? I had to add an argument 
to the configure command to get it to build. I actually told it that the 
host system was linux. It didn't know how to deal with darwin. As for 
getting it to work with PHP, well, when I built FreeTDS it built static 
libraries and I assume it was statically linked into the PHP module. PHP 
doesn't tell me that the sybase_* and mssql_* functions aren't defined, 
but it does give a Warning saying "Sybase: Could not connect to host" or 
something like that.

Any ideas?

On Sunday, June 24, 2001, at 12:21 PM, Mark J. Lilback wrote:

> 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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