FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, James K. Lowden wrote:
> While I'm on the subject, I've been asked to ask: has anyone tried to use
> FreeTDS as a binary replacement for Sybase's libraries?  The poor soul in
> question is interested in using APT Forms (remember that one?), and he's
> wondering what the likelihood of success is if he just points his linker
> at our stuff instead of theirs.  

APT! Still go one of those running in our company ;-)

In essence the only thing that needs doing for sybase binary compat is A) 
make sure all functions are functions and macros are macros as mentioned 
and B) all #define numbers such as SYBINTN et al. need to match.

B is the problem as we have only used number from the sybase headers where 
they could be fathomed from third party source code.  I'm a little learly 
of looking at the sybase headers and importing that into freetds en masse.

A can be done by running 'nm' on libsybdb.a or libc[st].a and making sure 
we match.

Brian