FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

On Tue, 17 May 2011 19:30:17 -0700 (PDT)
Chris Bartram <chrisrbartram AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> When I try the ODBC connection in a Perl program I get 
> errors that the .so is not found; yet an ls shows the file(s) right
> where it's supposed to be looking. tsql looks like it might be
> working? 

http://www.freetds.org/91/userguide/linker.how.htm

If Perl says it can't find the .so, it's telling the truth.  Because
Perl::DBI is using dlopen(3), nothing in the Perl executable nor the
DBI library affects where the runtime linker looks.  You have to tell
it.  LD_LIBRARY_PATH is your friend, but you may have to resort to
LD_PRELOAD.  

HTH.  

--jkl