FreeTDS Development Group

["Elliman, David" <David.Elliman AT rbccm.com>]

Perhaps I can ask the question again in a different way.

I have downloaded and built FreeTDS and successfully tested my config
with tsql.exe. My SYBASE env var points to the FreeTDS distro.

Should this enable a previously built app that has been built and uses
Sybase dblib, from a windows client to a Solaris server - to work
without rebuild? I had hoped this would simply replace the Sybase
netlibs for FreeTDS - because this doesn't work. 

Any help would be appreciated - a lot of advice out there seems to
suggest a build from source, if I could do this the code relies on
headers in SYBASE_OCS-12 which aren't present in FreeTDS?

Thanks

> _____________________________________________ 
> From:         Elliman, David  
> Sent: 21 October 2009 17:21
> To:   'freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org'
> Subject:      Win32 client replacing Sybase net libraries
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Forgive my newness!
> 
> Apologies if this has been asked before (I did check!!). I have a 3rd
> party library that runs on windows (XP SP2) as a client to Sybase 10
> (on Solaris). We wish to migrate away from it but would like to do it
> gradually. I was hoping that I could replace the Sybase client libs
> with FreeTDS, set up the SYBASE env variable, edit the freetds.conf
> file and I would be up and running. I could then over time intercept
> at the sql to TDS level.
> 
> I downloaded the latest stable release, unzipped, and built with VC6
> all the Win32 projects - which place libs in their respective output
> build directories, I was expecting a DLL to be produced but noticed
> that the Unix version doesn't use a .so anymore so wondered whether
> that was why(?). So I copied alll the .libs (freetds, dblib and
> libtds) into a new lib directory and copied a hopefully correct
> freetds.conf into there also, I then updated the SYBASE env to point
> to the dir above lib as per your user guide.
> 
> Boom! :-)
> 
> Can you let me know if a) what I'm attempting to do is a viable
> scenario and b) what I need to do to set up the Win32 build/Env to
> work
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