FreeTDS Development Group

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

Hey Nicholas,

Where can I download the latest cvs snapshot of freetds?  The
freetds-current.tgz I've downloaded seems to still have that vasprintf build
error on cygwin, thus what I downloaded must be an old cvs snaphost.  Or am
I doing something wrong?

I run this after untaring:
./configure
make

The main reason I want to be able to use freetds on Windows is so I can
develop freetds applications for Linux.  I only have one computer that I
dual boot between Windows with Microsoft SQL Server and Linux.

Thanks for your efforts in providing freetds to build and run on Windows.

Daniel

>We produce...something...on cygwin.  It does claim at configure time that
>it's capable of generating shared objects, and that it will do so.  It does
>install some ".dll.a" files in /usr/local/lib and some ".dll" files in
>/usr/local/bin [sic].  Whether these bear any relation to real windows DLLs
>or not, I don't know.  Some windows-inclined person will need to
investigate
>further.

>I'm not sure whether Cygwin is a good thing.  I do have it installed on my
>Windows machine, because as you noted, it can be of practical value.

>But anything that
>improves FreeTDS portability is a good thing, and this experiment certainly
>turned up a number of interesting problems.