FreeTDS Development Group

[James K. Lowden <jklowden AT speakeasy.org>]

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 04:33:07 -0400, "Rajani"
<rajani.shankar AT ssiworldwide.com> wrote:

> I am not clearly getting things from the User Guide of
> how to get it working.
> 
> What are the steps to be followed?
> What is the configuration that needs to be done?
> 
> When i try to compile the files in VC, it searches for certain header in
> sys directory, which is found to be missing?

Rajani, 

No one I know of has built FreeTDS using Microsoft's compiler.  I'm not
sure it can be built on a plain vanilla Win32 box, because (for one thing)
I think the Win32 API lacks an appropriate socket library.  I would think
you would need cygwin and gcc; see http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ for
details on that.  

To answer your question, the "configuration" referred to in the User Guide
describes a step that many free software packages use to examine the local
environment and prepare the package for compilation.  These tools don't
exist in a native Win32 environment, because no one ever wrote them.  They
do exist for most unix-like operating systems, and others, too.  

If you're very interested in a Win32 port, tell us what you're trying to
accomplish (technically), and someone more knowledgeable will be able to
tell you what's needed.  

Regards, 

--jkl