FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

2010/5/18 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.

Sorry for the delay, I finally found some time to write some lines....
You can find a README.Windows in CVS

Regards
  Frediano