FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>]

Il lun, 2003-02-03 alle 18:53, Lowden, James K ha scritto:
> > From: Bort, Paul [mailto:pbort AT tmwsystems.com]
> > Sent: February 3, 2003 12:04 PM
> > 
> > If I'm touching a tender subject or completely off track, 
> > just let me know.
> 
> Hi Paul, 
> 
> Not at all.  It is amusing, though.  Welcome to the project.  
> 
> > I've got a Windows app that I would really like to be able to 
> > run under
> > WINE. The app starts, and is fine until it tries to connect 
> > to a Microsoft
> > SQL Server. Normally we do this through WNTDBLIB.DLL. I've had no luck
> > getting that library working under WINE [...] I was 
> > wondering if
> > any thought had been given to a bridge for WINE that would 
> > catch TDS queries and use FreeTDS to send them over the network?
> 
> No thought at all of a WINE bridge, to the best of my knowledge.  You could
> compile FreeTDS as a Win32 binary, and see how it goes.  
> 
> There are two issues to using FreeTDS for your purposes.  One is how/whether
> a Win32 FreeTDS binary interacts with the underlying system (be it WINE or a
> bona fide Win32 system).  The second is FreeTDS's degree of binary
> compatibility, that is, how much FreeTDS looks like Microsoft's DLL to the
> application.  We don't guarantee much of anything around here, especially
> not binary compatibility, but it would be interesting to hear how you make
> out.  
> 
> Any snapshot of FreeTDS from the last month or so will build under MSVC
> (right, Freddy?) or Cygwin.  It will provide db-lib and ODBC interfaces.  I
> don't know the name of the DLL it produces, but you could renaming it to
> WNTDBLIB.DLL.  If the application recognizes it, we've achieved some
> compatibility at least.  You'd want to configure "--with-msdblib" to improve
> your chances.  
> 

I don't know how to program such things with wine (but I know I can run
Internet Explorer and other programs), but I know FreeTDS can compile
under windows. I use msvc compiler (but any C ansi C compiler should
work). The only limitation is interaction with system. I don't know
where FreeTDS ODBC driver looks for freetds.conf and locales.conf. I
always used DSN/freetds.conf-less connections (I must use a snapshot).

freddy77

PS: James I was expecting a release candidate some day ago... some problems 
occurred ?