FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:36:18 -0500, "Chris Capobianco" <chris AT dps-ct.com>
wrote:
> Our Macintosh application currently communicates with Microsoft SQL
> Server 6.5-7.0 using Visigenic ODBC drivers.  We use Metrowerks
> CodeWarrior 8.0 to develop our application.  
> 
> The Visigenic drivers do not work with Microsoft SQL 2000 nor Mac OSX. 
> Is it possible to use FreeTDS to create Macintosh ODBC drivers to
> communicate with SQL 2000?  Can the FreeTDS libraries be linked into a
> CodeWarrior 8.0 project?  

Chris, 

The best answer is "probably".  

If you are using OS X, then yes, FreeTDS has already been built on that
system.  You need Gnu gcc and a recent version of libtool to create a
dynalib (I think it's called) but you won't be blazing a new trail.  As a
matter of fact, you may find it's already packaged and published.  

Whether our ODBC implementation is sufficiently complete to replace the
Visigenic drivers, I can't say (because I have no idea).  

As to linking with CodeWarrior, I don't see why not; it should be like
linking to any dynamic library.  

I personally have no experience with any Mac system, never having used
one.  Others on the mailing list do, though.  I suggest you subscribe, to
tap into folks with the experience you need.  

Best, 

--jkl