FreeTDS Development Group

[Richard Banks <rbanks AT arel.com.au>]

(sorry if this is a resend, but it looks like the previous message was
blank)

Craig A. Berry wrote:

> At 3:55 PM +1000 5/16/05, Richard Banks wrote:
>  
>
> Thanks for the notes, but given the availability of the nightly snapshot, what value is there in building from CVS? 
>  
The nightly snapshot is missing the src/dblib/buffering.h and
error_table.h files.

> > 2. In src/dblib/dblib.c the dbdatecrack function references the Sybase date 
> > fields.  I just commented out the MSDBLIB  compiler directive in sybdb.h and 
> > it compiled OK.
> > Dblib unittest T0012 fails to compile as a result, but a similar change there 
> > works OK.
> >    
>
> Have you tried building with  MM(K|S)/MACRO="MSDBLIB"=1 ?
>  
That was how I was building. Well, actually it was
MMK/MACRO=("TDSVER"="TDS80","MSDBLIB"=1)

> I'll try building the dev snapshot and working up a patch to the issues you 
> note (if I can reproduce them).  0.63 final built fine
>  
Thanks :-)

I've now got to try and figure out how to work this in to my existing
BASIC code base.  Big issues with the string handling, pointers to
pointers, etc.

- Richard