FreeTDS Development Group

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

Hi everybody,
 
I was able to get freeTDS going on to talk to DBD::Sybase on Mac OS X 10.3.
I recall few months back, some one had said that Mac OS X 10.3 required 
"-liconv" to be specified while in the linking phase. That was  not too clear 
initially. However, this is how I did it.
freeTDS had been working fiine, and was able to connect to the data base on 
the specified server, the login was ofcourse done successfully.
However, a test script that tried to connect to the MS Sql Server 7, using 
DBD::Sybase, was giving errors.
 
The CONFIG file that comes with DBD::Sybase module, has an option of 
specifying 
EXTRA_LIBS. So I did the same. for Mac OS X 10.3 the extra library required 
is 
"-liconv"
thus the CONFIG file now read:
 
EXTRA_LIBS= -liconv
 
after saving the file. do:
 
admin$ perl Makefile.PL --file
This creates the makefile for this module.
admin$ make
admin$ make test
about 4 tests failed, but others printed .............ok
then 
admin$ sudo make install_perl
password: ***************
 
and lo!!! it got installed.
after this i ran the test perl script, which just tries to connect to the MS 
Sql Server7. the script did fine, and returned to the prompt without any 
errors.
 
Hope this helps others.
regards,
Vishal Sapre
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