FreeTDS Development Group

["Richard Krehbiel" <richard.krehbiel AT gmail.com>]

The thing to do first is stop researching FreeTDS and start studying ODBC.

Google for C++ ODBC tutorials (but, frankly, I didn't see one I liked), or
get a book.

In Linux, install the unixODBC and unixODBC-devel packages (that's what
Fedora calls them).  Whatever you've got for MS development will already
have ODBC stuff available.

On 9/5/07, Juan Perez <laslistas AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thak you Richard.
>
> If i understand well you say me to use FreeTDS.dll (I think i will use
> the same in Windows and in Linux) instead dblib.lib .
>
>   But, where i can find a sample of this in C/C++ (¿what include files
> i need?¿where is a sample to use this?), and what is the process to do
> it?
>   I readed the "FreeTDS User Guide" and i understand that there are
> some possible configurations to do it. I don´t know what is the best
> for me but, suposssing that i selected one, i don´t know "How to get
> what works with it working" (chapter 6 in user guide). There is
> nothing about C/C++.
>
>
> Than you in advance.
>
> 2007/9/5, Richard Krehbiel <richard.krehbiel AT gmail.com>:
> > I migrated a substantial code base (700K+ lines) from Windows to Linux,
> and
> > the database portion was a piece of cake.
> >
> > The key ingredient for your C++ program is to use the ODBC API.  After
> that
> > you can compile on Windows or Linux, no sweat.  ODBC isolates the
> program
> > from the database drivers.  So on Windows you can use either FreeTDS or
> MS
> > drivers, and on Linux (where MS drivers aren't available) you can use
> > FreeTDS.
> >
> > Furthermore, you can change database vendors with very little impact on
> your
> > code (just SQL syntax changes).  Not only did I port from Windows to
> Linux,
> > but with only a little more work (only SQL syntax tweaks) I ported from
> MS
> > SQL Server to MySQL.  The driver is loaded at run time by the connection
> > details;  you can retarget to  Oracle or PostgreSQL or IBM DB2 or Ingres
> or
> > Sybase; all have Windows and Linux drivers.
> >
> > On 9/5/07, Juan Perez <laslistas AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all:
> > >
> > >   I am new to FreeTDS.
> > >   We are developing an application that have to run in Windows and
> Linux.
> > >   The program is written in C/C++. The same application works in Linux
> > > and in Windows.
> > >   This application has to be connections to Microsoft Sql Server.
> > > Simple connections: some select and some simple insert sentences.
> > >
> > >    I found FreeTDS and I supose this could make the work.
> > >
> > >    I am able to generate dblib.lib, FreeTDS.dll and libTDS.lib with
> > > MSVC (and i supose than i can generate this libraries for Linux).
> > >    I read in the documentation that the most stable is dblib, so i
> > > decide to use it. But the problem is that i don´t know how.
> > >    My first testing place is Windows.  I want to create a simple
> > > project that conects to a database, makes a select and prints the
> > > result.
> > >    So I included in the project dblib.lib library and... i dont know
> > > what include files y need. I try to compile the samples
> > > (src\odbc\unittests) without result.
> > >    I know i am making something bad, but i don´t know what.
> > > Can somebody help me?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance and excuse me for my poor english.
> > >
> > > bye...
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