FreeTDS Development Group

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

Brusowankin, David S wrote:
> I can't successfully set up FreeTDS on Windows XP
> SP2 so that it can query a Sybase database on a Unix system. 
...
> 
> ODBC Driver Manager] Driver's SQLSetConnectAttr failed
> 
> > select 1
> > go
> 
> Driver not capable
> 
> The FreeTDS version is 0.64 (the stable version from the website)
> 
> The TDS version is 4.2

Version 5.0 is a much better choice, though.  

> I built freetds using Visual Studio .NET 2003. I really have no idea
> what the correct ODBC registry settings are so I'm not sure that I have
> installed FreeTDS correctly.

I've never done this, so I can't offer first-hand advice.  I would like to
believe that just adding the FreeTDS driver as a DSN in the control panel
would be enough these days.  I guess not?  

I remembered Frediano offered advice on this topic from time to time.
Googling "win32 registry freetds odbc" yielded this as the first hit: 

https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/freetds/2003q2/011314.html

HTH.  

--jkl