FreeTDS Development Group

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

Maddry, Ted K. wrote:
> I am getting a link error when trying to build freetds and would really
> appreciate some help.  I've attached the output of configure on my
> system with the make following it.  I'm building code that I downloaded
> on 6/28, freetds-stable.tgz (freetds-0.63) from http://www.freetds.org/.

Heh, trying to build it on Windows, eh?  I don't have a patch for you, but
here are two cheap hacks.  

1.  "touch defncopy.exe" in src/apps.  You don't need defncopy to use
FreeTDS, although you might want it.  

or 

2.  Look in src/apps/bsqldb.c for HAVE_BASENAME.  There's a basename()
function defined in that application.  Copy it and its functional
prototype to defncopy.c.  It should link then. [1] 

The fix is to migrate basename() to src/replacements.  No time for that
tonight.  Thanks for the problem report.  

--jkl

[1] basename() isn't used for anything terribly important, just to get the
name of the executable for error messages.  Unfortunately, it won't work
on Windows; if the program is executed by qualifying the command with a
directory path, the basename() function won't shorten it.  But fortunately
that's only a matter of prettiness.