FreeTDS Development Group

["Daniel Morgan" <danmorg AT sc.rr.com>]

I forwarded this message to the list because my email to James K. Lowden
bounced saying my email was spam.

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Morgan [mailto:danmorg AT sc.rr.com] 
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 3:08 PM
To: 'James K. Lowden'
Subject: RE: [freetds] MS SQL Server 2000, FreeTDS, and Cygwin

Sure.  No problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: James K. Lowden [mailto:jklowden AT speakeasy.org] 
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 3:00 PM
To: Daniel Morgan
Subject: Re: [freetds] MS SQL Server 2000, FreeTDS, and Cygwin

Do you mind if I answer you on the list?  I replied privately by
accident,
and I think others would be interested.  

--jkl


On Fri, 17 May 2002 07:10:16 -0400 "Daniel Morgan" <danmorg AT sc.rr.com>
wrote:

> Thanks.  I will definitely try SQSH now.
> 
> As for glib, yes, it is a library required by gtk; however, gtk is not
> required to use glib.  I do know glib is a great way to make portable
> programs.
> 
> Since you are intrigued, I will tell you what I am trying to do.  I
> would like to get FreeTDS to work in libgda (GNU Data Access at 
> http://www.gnome-db.org/ ) and 
> Mono C#/CLR ( http://www.go-mono.com/ ).  
> 
> You mentioned something about ct-lib.  What is the difference between
> all those libraries?  Which library should I be trying to use in
libgda
> or Mono?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James K. Lowden [mailto:jklowden AT speakeasy.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 8:33 PM
> To: Daniel Morgan
> Subject: Re: [freetds] MS SQL Server 2000, FreeTDS, and Cygwin
> 
> On Thu, 16 May 2002 07:22:08 -0400 "Daniel Morgan" <danmorg AT sc.rr.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Are there any tools or examples I can use to test
> > that I can connect, run SQL commands, run SQL queries and get sample
> > data back?
> > 
> > I looked at some tool SQSH, but it seems to be for Sybase.  Will it
> work
> > for MS SQL Server too?  Are there any others?
> 
> Sqsh is what you want.  It's a ct-lib client, will happily connect to
> your
> server, and is known to build in a cygwin environment.  Scott Gray
used
> to
> work for Sybase and wrote sqsh for Sybase, but it works just fine with
> MS
> servers, too.  
> 
> > I even built unixODBC under Cygwin (it built - but took a long time)
> to
> > use FreeTDS.  I then discovered to get FreeTDS support in unixODBC,
I
> > need to build FreeTDS with --with-unixodbc=/usr/local and this is
when
> I
> > had a problem with finding glib-config.  Isn't this glib1?  I have
> glib2
> > and 
> > pkg-config on my machine.  Will the ODBC support in FreeTDS be
> modified
> > to support glib2?
> 
> I have 51 packages on my system dependent on glib-1.2.10, and FreeTDS
> isn't one of them.  Does our ODBC support really require a GTK
library?
> 
> 
> What you're doing is intriguing.  I hope you get it working.  
> 
> Regards, 
> --jkl
>