FreeTDS Development Group

["crusoe" <crusoe AT myquickmail.us>]

Hi,

i am trying to build and use the freeTDS application to talk to a MS Sql 
Server7.0. 
freeTDS is being run on a Mac OS X 10.3 system. freeTDS gets built fine and 
also connects. However, we are using a the DBD::Sybase module, and we are 
facing problems in running a test script after building the above module.

here's the test script. As I understand it, If it runs fine, we should 
atleast not get any errors.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use DBI;

my $uniDBH = DBI->connect( "dbi:Sybase:server=Uniprint;database=pharos",
"Homer",
"scratchy",
{RaiseError=>1,PrintError=>1}
); 
########################################################

However I am getting the following errors :-

dyld: perl Undefined symbols:
/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBD/Sybase/Sybase.bundle 
undefined reference to _libiconv expected to be defined in a dynamic image
/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBD/Sybase/Sybase.bundle 
undefined reference to _libiconv_close expected to be defined in a dynamic 
image
/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBD/Sybase/Sybase.bundle 
undefined reference to _libiconv_open expected to be defined in a dynamic 
image
Trace/BPT trap

I have installed the latest version of the libiconv library. The $SYBASE 
variable is also set correctly to /usr/local. $TDSVER is 7.0
I am not understanding what could be the reason for the errors, what does 
this error mean and what can I do to remove them. Also, how do i exactly use 
-liconv in the link phase manually.

Any help would be highly appreciated. This project has a close deadline and 
we are presently pressed hard.

Regards,
Crusoe
__________________________________________________________________________

Quoting jbaldwin:

I'm surprised by this, since I didn't run into trouble using 
DBD::Sybase after I installed. (I just verified by running a script.)

However, I did run into problems with other tools using iconv. I found 
that Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) requires a -liconv in the link phase, and 
I'm guessing linux does not. I've just been manually adding that into 
the link phase and moving along my happy way. This worked for me with 
sqsh.

My script begins like such:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use DBI;
use DBD::Sybase;
use Net::FTP;

BEGIN
{
$ENV{SYBASE} = "/usr/local";}



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