FreeTDS Development Group

[Harry Sfougaris <hsfougaris AT gmail.com>]

Would it be a problem if I asked you to send me the libs?
For now it is very important for me to just  see it working through Qt, and 
with good build of the libraries, I can see whether I need to compile it with 
another compiler, or Visual Studio is just fine.

Thanks,

Harry

On 07 Μαϊ 2010, at 6:55 μ.μ., Paul Thurston wrote:

> Harry:
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> I'm using dblib under Windows. There are no ODBC DSNs configured under 
> Windows to support the application.
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> Paul
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> 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
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> Are you using db-library, or the ODBC thing?
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> I am trying to use db-library, and I don't have odbc*.lib and FreeTDS.lib 
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> Thanks,
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> Harry
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> On 07 Μαϊ 2010, at 6:40 μ.μ., Paul Thurston wrote:
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>> In VC9, here are the list of additional libraries I needed to link into to 
>> my "hello SQL" app to drive FreeTDS:
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>> ws2_32.lib
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>> odbc32.lib
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>> odbccp32.lib
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>> FreeTDS.lib
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>> dblib.lib
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>> libTDS.lib
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>> Best,
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>> Paul
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>> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
>> [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Harry Sfougaris
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>> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 11:38 AM
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>> To: FreeTDS Development Group
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>> 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>>
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>>> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 07:26:06AM +0300, Harry Sfougaris wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>> Perhaps if you post the link command and the first 10 so errors, we'll be 
>>> able to help.  Also, how was Qt compiled?
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>> Well I don't even know how to get started...
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>> The only thing I found was to download msys, so I can run configure and 
>> make.
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>> This creates libsybdb.a, libsybdb.dll.a mad libsybdb.la files.
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>> Is this what I should be doing to start with?
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>> I really have no idea how Qt was compiled; it is the download LGPL version 
>> 4.6.2 from their website.
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>> What exactly should I look for?
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>>> 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.
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>> That's the issue I think when compiling with Visual Studio, and trying to 
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>>> HTH.
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>>> --jkl
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