FreeTDS Development Group

["Dann Corbit" <DCorbit AT connx.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:freetds-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of David Chang
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 3:00 PM
> To: FreeTDS Development Group
> Subject: Re: [freetds] Freetds under Windows without cygwin
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to build freetds libraries without the cygwin layer
(I'm
> fine using Cygwin to build the libraries, I just don't want the
libraries
> to depend on the cygwin layer for the final executables)?  If so, does
it
> require some other libraries like mingw, or is it just dependent on
> standard Win32 libraries.

Sure, it's just ANSI/ISO C code.  Compile it with any compiler that you
like.

It builds fine on POSIX type systems and also under Windows.  We
typically use Microsoft Visual C++, but I guess that MINGW gcc would
work fine or any other fully functional C compiler.