FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:21:18 -0500 (EST), L J Bayuk
<lbayuk AT mindspring.com> wrote:
> James K. Lowden wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:06:02 +0100, Klaus-Michael Köhler wrote:
> > 
> > > I got the FreeTDS archive (version 0.61), compiled it and installed
> > > it. Is there any possibility to activate the libraries WITHOUT
> > > recompiling PHP and Apache? 
> > 
> > I don't know about Apache, but PHP definitely has to be recompiled
> > before it can know what it needs to use FreeTDS.  
> 
> You can do it by compiling just the PHP sybase_ct extension; no need to
> recompile all of PHP. (Provided your current PHP either does not have
> sybase_ct built in, or has it as a loadable extension.)  The process is
> described in the PHP source file README.SELF-CONTAINED-EXTENSIONS.
> You just need the source directory ext/sybase_ct from PHP, which you can
> copy anywhere you want, and a working PHP installation.

Cool.  I colored your answer "blue" in my email folder.  It means, "find a
way to add this information to the User Guide".  

Regards, 

--jkl


> 
> Here is an example (but this assumes my install paths):
>    $ cp -rp .../php-4.3.0/ext/sybase_ct sybase_ct
>    $ cd sybase_ct
>    $ /opt/php/bin/phpize
> Your directory "sybase_ct" is now a "self contained extension".
> To build it:
>   ./configure --with-php-config=/opt/php/bin/php-config \
>               --with-sybase-ct=shared,/opt/freetds
>   make
>   make install
> You have now installed "sybase_ct.so" in your PHP loadable extensions
> directory. Put "extension=sybase_ct.so" in php.ini (assuming you want
> it loaded by default), and then "apachectl graceful" to restart.