FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Bouk, Janice
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 1:26 PM
> 
> I am new to freeTDS.  I am trying to connect to MS SQL Server on a
Windows 2000 machine.

Welcome, Janice.  

> I have installed freeTDS on a Solaris 7 machine.  I  used the latest
stable version 0.63.
> I am not using a ODBC driver manager.  I copied the required files out
of a unixODBC download.
> 
> I set the following flags during configure
>       --with-tdsver=8.0
>       --prefix=...
>       --sysconfdir=...
>       --with-odbc-nodm=...
>       --enable-msdblib
> 
> I can run make and make install without errors.
> 
> When I try to confirm the installation using tsql this is what I get
> >: tsql -H mars -p 1433 -U RNDB
> locale is "C"
> locale charset is "646"
> Password: 
> Assertion failed: ret == 0, file iconv.c, line 357
> Abort (core dumped)

Well, it could be a friendlier message.  Add --disable-libiconv to your
configure options.  

I'm pretty sure FreeTDS can't use the Solaris iconv library.  If you
need internationalization support, install GNU libiconv and use
--with-libiconv-prefix to tell the configure script where to find it.  

I should add this information to the User Guide....

--jkl


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