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[dmarrer AT bci.cl]

Hello James:

Thank you for your answer. 

I use this options:

./configure -prefix=mypath -with-odbc-nodm=DIR 

and FreeTDS compile OK and build lib libtdsodbc.so

Now I try this:

osql -S server_def -U user -P password

and the result is:

osql: error: no "isql" command found.  Is unixODBC installed?

I need install unixODBC or not to access SQL Server using FreeTDS?

Thanks a lot for your help

Daymel




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

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12-11-2008 16:19
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dmarrer AT bci.cl wrote:
> 
> I try to do this:
> 
> copy sql.h, sqlext.h and sqltypes.h to /usr/local/include dir
> 
> ./configure -prefix=mypath -with-odbc-nodm=/usr/local/include
> 
> And the result is 
> 
> checking compile-time options
> configure: error: sql.h not found

So close! 

$ ./configure --help | grep nodm
  --with-odbc-nodm=DIR    build odbc using headers in DIR/include

You don't specify the include directory; you specify the directory that
has an include directory.  In your case, /usr/local. 

It may seem a little odd, but it's not crazy.  The notion is that a normal
tree has pairs of include and library directories e.g., 

/usr/include             /usr/local/include              /usr/pkg/include
/usr/lib                 /usr/local/lib /usr/pkg/lib

Because a configure script typically needs both, the user provides just
the parent.  It so happens that --with-odbc-nodm has no use for a lib/
directory, but the pattern is followed anyway. 

> Now I want to create a shell that connect to SQL Server using FreeTDS
> and  write result data in a text file
> 
> How I write this shell? Which libraries I have to use? 

I don't know what you mean by "write a shell".  freebcp will execute a
query and write the results to a file.  So will sqsh.  So will bsqldb. 
Pick your poison. None of them requires ODBC. 

HTH. 

--jkl


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