FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Bing Du
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:17 AM
> 
> FreeTDS is new to me.

Welcome to the project, Bing.  

> 1. why tsql shows TDS version as 5.0 rather than 8.0 as freetds.conf
> shows?

'tsql -C' shows the compiled-in defaults, the values used if not
specified in freetds.conf.  (Note that the -C parameter doesn't require
a server name, which would affect many settings.)

There isn't an easy way to display the effective settings for a
connection.  

> 2. I did not specify any parameters for ./configure when freeTDS
> was built.   tsql shows 'no' for unixodbc currently.  Any way to
> let freetds use unixodbc instead of iodbc?  Where does FreeTDS look
> for unixodbc in the building process?  I'm wondering what prevented
> freeTDS from finding unixodbc.

The configure script tries to suss what's installed, and found iODBC.
IIRC, it settles for the first one it finds.  

Overriding that is no problem:

$ ./configure --help |grep odbc
  --disable-odbc          do not attempt to build odbc the driver
  --with-iodbc=DIR        build odbc driver against iODBC in DIR
  --with-unixodbc=DIR     build odbc driver against unixODBC in DIR
  --with-odbc-nodm=DIR    build odbc without driver manager (headers in
DIR)  

To use your favorite DM, throw your favorite switch.  See also
http://www.freetds.org/userguide/config.htm.

And have fun.  :-)

--jkl





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