FreeTDS Development Group

["Reid, Roger L." <roger.reid AT dpw.com>]

I was not able to locate in the list archives or the docs a certain, recent 
answer to the question: can I compile & run in Windows (x86 and/or x64), and 
what compilers are used.  I know folks have worked on it, not clear where it 
stands.  Specifically I want to use dblib to compile Sybase::DBI and sqsh on 
Windows.

I am embarrassed to be asking one of these "does it run on XXXX" questions - 
especially when a response might be "why would you need to do that".   I've 
used FreeTDS for a long time so we can run dblib programs on Solaris - Perl 
and C - with backend neutrality
for Sybase and MS SQL Server.

Now we find we'd like to run some Sybase::DBI stuff from XP, Server 2003, 
etc.   Searching brought up old information that this was basically for 
"everything but Windows" - after all, wasn't that the original impetus, to 
work with SQL Server from non-Windows platforms?

Our shop now has a strong FreeTDS culture - and a long Unix history - so 
what's happening now is some processes move to Windows servers, and the 
developers expect the same Perl / Sybase DBD code to run.  Using Sybase or MS 
specific libraries isn't the preferred answer, since often we're doing Perl 
to coordinate between multiple databases (I can hear the horrified gasps over 
on the various (excellent but MS centric) mailing lists now.   I really 
confused folks on one of them by talking about MS SQL Server maintenance and 
ETL using cron jobs from Unix boxes....)

Anyway - sorry about that.   If I can get the information, I'll gladly edit 
it into shape to be dropped into the FAQ.

roger reid