FreeTDS Development Group

[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>]

On Jun 27, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Thompson, William wrote:

> Don't apologise Mahendra!
> 
> So the Sybase::CTlib and Sybase::DBLib modules are part of sybperl:
> 
> http://www.peppler.org/freeware/sybperl.html
> 
> So Sybperl would normally be built on top of the Sybase open client 
> libraries, but the freetds equivalents can be substituted instead. So yes, 
> you would have to rebuild or re-install sybperl, and make sure that when 
> you do so, that it picks up the freetds libraries instead of Sybase's. In 
> our user guide we show how that can be done to build DBD::Sybase (another 
> Sybase module for perl). I daresay there will be something similar for 
> sybperl.
> 


This should normally work, although I haven't tried it recently.

If the OP doesn't have too many perl scripts I would recommend migrating 
these scripts to DBI/DBD::Sybase (or DBD::ODBC) as this API is better 
maintained, and will continue to be maintained in the future.

Michael
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