FreeTDS Development Group

[Bernd Jendrissek <berndj AT prism.co.za>]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 03:42:48PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> I've discovered we're a lot closer to being binary compatible to Sybase's
> dblib than I think is generally assumed.  

Imagine my surprise when I got *linker* errors instead of preprocessor errors
when I tried "just to see what happens" to build an in-house project I
recently inherited.  I had completely forgotten about some ancient FreeTDS
libraries that I had installed maybe two years ago.  (0.50 or thereabouts.)

> 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

Well, I suppose I have.  I *can*, if nothing else...

gcc  -g -O2   -o dblogcln  dblogcln.o ../common/libcommon.a -lnsl -lsybdb 
-lsybdb -lpthread -lnsl -lcurses 
../common/libcommon.a(iom.o): In function `fetch_results':
/mnt/disk/src/portal/common/iom.c:683: undefined reference to `dbnumcompute'
/mnt/disk/src/portal/common/iom.c:671: undefined reference to `dbchange'
/mnt/disk/src/portal/common/iom.c:672: undefined reference to `dbchange'
../common/libcommon.a(iom.o): In function `bind_compute':
/mnt/disk/src/portal/common/iom.c:779: undefined reference to `dbnumcompute'
/mnt/disk/src/portal/common/iom.c:795: undefined reference to `dbaltbind'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [dblogcln] Error 1

(There's probably still a lot of brain damage to fix...)

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