FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

Del,

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Del Sherman wrote:

> Brad,
> 
> I havent gotten very far, uncompressed freetds on the linux box and
> followed all of the instructions on the freetds site as far as running
> configure and make on freetds.  When I got to the part about ldconfig
> and library paths I wasn't making much sense of it, then when the
> instructions started describing recompiling php to work with freetds it
> all fell apart, I was lost at that point.

I'm afraid that the user guide assumes you built PHP yourself in the first 
place :-/ Of course, with appliances like the raq that is generally not 
the case.  jkl, perhaps links to apache/php docs at the place where we 
say "consult PHP docs" in the UG would be a good idea?

> As far as sqsh, Isn't that some kind of query utility?  I don't think I
> have that on the cobalt box.

Yes, you can get it from www.sqsh.org it's a very handy tool to have 
around, and basically it's the easiest to build and make sure everything 
is ok.  If sqsh doesn't work, then neither will anything else.  So, it's a 
good first step.

> Basically I made it to the end of "How to build: Configure and make"
> section in the freetds instructions but not past the very next section
> "OS-specific Issues".  
> 
> -Del
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-freetds-143773 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
> [mailto:bounce-freetds-143773 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu] On Behalf Of Bradley
> Bell
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:13 PM
> To: TDS Development Group
> Subject: [freetds] Re: Install freetds on a RaQ4 to work with MS SQL and
> PHP
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:08:36PM -0400, Del wrote:
> > I would like to make calls to an mssql server using php, I have tried 
> > to get freetds set up but I dont seem to be having much success, the 
> > instructions that are on the freetds site don't quite match how the 
> > RaQ4
> > (linux) is set up, plus I'm also stuck on how to re-compile php to
> work
> > with freetds.  Can anyone help?
> 
> How far have you gotten?  Does sqsh work?
> 
> -brad
> 
>