FreeTDS Development Group

[Damien Churchill <damoxc AT gmail.com>]

On 14 May 2010 18:37, Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 13/05/2010 alle 15.16 -0700, Paul Thurston ha scritto:
>> Frediano:
>>
>> Agreed that the Windows distribution is sorely in need of an overhaul.
>> How about if we just ease to this at first?
>>
>> Can we just put together, say, a  VC10 solution together that build the 
>> dlls?
>> Something like getting dblib.lib, libTDS.lib, FreeTDS.lib and FreeTDS.dll ?
>>
>
> FreeTDS.dll as the odbc driver I imagine. Why not a dblib.dll ??
>
>> As Damien noticed, the static libs are gigantic, because everything is 
>> being sucked in &  statically linked,
>> I too prefer the DLLs.
>>
>> Would it be reasonable to take the old msvc6 project and upgrade it to 
>> msvc10?
>> If you like, I could work on this.
>>
>
> Yes but I would personally prefer a clean project for two reasons
> - it helps to remove obsolete stuff and defines
> - it helps to find missing stuff... and defines :)
> I think all you need to define is HAVE_CONFIG_H and
> _FREETDS_LIBRARY_SOURCE and include win32 directory before include one.
>
> Is possible to have all projects files into a win32/msvc10 (or
> win32/vs2008) directory ??
>

If someone writes up the proper compiling procedure (README.win32 or
whatever) I will gladly create the required project files.