FreeTDS Development Group

["Sergey Semenyuk" <ssemenyuk AT gmail.com>]

I have managed to compile ct-lib and use it with DBD::Sybase with VC++ 2005.
It required few changes. Let me know off the list,and I can send you my
sources with project files if you are interested.

Sergey

On 10/22/07, James K. Lowden <jklowden AT freetds.org> wrote:
>
> Reid, Roger L. wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hi Roger,
>
> If you want to run sqsh and DBD::Sybase on Windows, you'll need an
> emulation environment.  They need ct-lib, which is the one client library
> that can't (yet) be compilied by VC++ project included in the distribution
> tarball.
>
> I wouldn't think porting ct-lib to Win32 would be all that hard, but sqsh
> needs terminal support.  If you want to know what a hairball that is, ask
> Simon Tatham, the guy who wrote PuTTY: Google "ssh putty mutually hostile.
> AFAIK the only way to get sqsh working on Windows is via Cygwin.
>
> I'm pretty sure you can compile all of FreeTDS under Cygwin or SFU, and
> last I heard you could use MinGW, too.  I don't know if anyone's tried to
> use anything besides the GNU compiler in those environments.
>
> I think if I were doing this, I'd try to get ct-lib to compile natively
> for Win32 for use with Perl, permitting a 100% Windows Perl DBI solution.
> But for sqsh I'd set up cygwin or just use PuTTY to log into a more
> programmer-friendly machine.
>
> HTH.
>
> --jkl
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