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[Paul Thurston <pthurston AT netegrate.com>]

Harry:

I'm using dblib under Windows. There are no ODBC DSNs configured under 
Windows to support the application.

Paul


From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Harry Sfougaris
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 11:48 AM
To: FreeTDS Development Group
Subject: Re: [freetds] MinGW + Windows


Are you using db-library, or the ODBC thing?

I am trying to use db-library, and I don't have odbc*.lib and FreeTDS.lib 
linked.



Thanks,

Harry



On 07 Μαϊ 2010, at 6:40 μ.μ., Paul Thurston wrote:



> Harry:

>

> In VC9, here are the list of additional libraries I needed to link into to 
> my "hello SQL" app to drive FreeTDS:

>

> ws2_32.lib

> odbc32.lib

> odbccp32.lib

> FreeTDS.lib

> dblib.lib

> libTDS.lib

>

> Best,

>

> Paul

>

>

> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Harry Sfougaris

> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 11:38 AM

> To: FreeTDS Development Group

> Subject: Re: [freetds] MinGW + Windows

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> On 07 Μαϊ 2010, at 4:46 μ.μ., 
> jklowden AT schemamania.org<mailto:jklowden AT schemamania.org<mailto:jklowden AT schemamania.org%3cmailto:jklowden AT schemamania.org>>
>  wrote:

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>> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 07:26:06AM +0300, Harry Sfougaris wrote:

>

>>> I'm not interested in doing it from the command line (as opposed to from 
>>> within Visual Studio), but rather to compile it with a different compiler.

>

>>

>

>> Perhaps if you post the link command and the first 10 so errors, we'll be 
>> able to help.  Also, how was Qt compiled?

>

>>

>

> Well I don't even know how to get started...

>

> The only thing I found was to download msys, so I can run configure and 
> make.

>

> This creates libsybdb.a, libsybdb.dll.a mad libsybdb.la files.

>

> Is this what I should be doing to start with?

>

> I really have no idea how Qt was compiled; it is the download LGPL version 
> 4.6.2 from their website.

>

> What exactly should I look for?

>

>

>

>> FreeTDS is a C library.  On a Windows platform it will take the form of a 
>> COFF binary, no matter what compiler is used.  As I'm sure you know, the 
>> *compiler* per se just converts C to object code.  But it can be told to 
>> make certain assumptions with every header file about the libraries its 
>> output will be linked to.  For everything to work properly, all components 
>> in the final executable need to share a single definition of each global 
>> name e.g. strcpy(3).  If some of your code is linked to glibc and other to 
>> Microsofts's C runtime library, I'd expect problems.

>

>>

>

> That's the issue I think when compiling with Visual Studio, and trying to 
> use the .lib with Qt.

>

>

>

>> HTH.

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>>

>

>> --jkl

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