FreeTDS Development Group

["ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have freetds-0.63 on Linux connect to MS SQL Server 2000.
> I have all configure setup correctly and unittest for tds,dblib,ctlib
> and odbc are ALL PASSed
> (for ODBC, I use --with-odbc-nodm)
> 
> And now, I need a static only ODBC driver ... so I add an option
> to configure, "--enable-shared=no".
> 
> Everything still working fine except that the ODBC now FAIL
> with following error:
> 
>   odbctest
> --------
> 
> connection parameters:
> server:   'MyServer2k'
> user:     'samples'
> password: 'samples123'
> database: 'tempdb'
> Unable to open data source (ret=-1)
> SQL error S1000 -- [FreeTDS][SQL Server]Unable to connect to 
> data source
> 
> 
> I didn't change anything !!!  It's work fine if shared 
> library is enabed !!!
> I don't have odbc.ini, just have freetds.conf at 
> /usr/local/freetds/etc.
> 
> Do I really need odbc.ini.   All examples and doc I found show me that
> in odbc.ini, I need a "Driver" which is a ".so" library ... 
> but now I only use
> static library and NO so in my build. 
> Do I still need odbc.ini ?  How can I setup "Driver" in odbc.ini
> if I don't have shared library ?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> KC
> 

No, odbc.ini is not required. We do not recommend the use of library
without DM (driver manager, unixodbc/iodbc/whichever), however someone
use it in this way. You have to link your program to libtdsodbc.a
directly, not libodbc.so, so in linker options you should change -lodbc
with -ltdsodbc. The idea is to call SQLConnect/SQLDriverConnect directly
from driver (that do not use "Driver" entry in odbc.ini). With
SQLDriverConnect you can avoid even freetds.conf.

freddy77