FreeTDS Development Group

[Igor Korot <ikorot01 AT gmail.com>]

Hi, Frediano,

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 2016-06-11 8:58 GMT+01:00 Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>:
>> Hi Merle,
>>   thanks to test it out. I think now the big concern about Mac OS X is
>> the OpenSSL support removal from Apple. Would be great to have the
>> support for Mac OS X system libraries for TLS support.
>> I have a Mac so I could try however I was not able to compile FreeTDS
>> with iODBC. I also installed iODBC (why is not included by default?)
>> but FreeTDS was not finding the headers/library. Should I add some
>> option?
>>
>
> I tried with the Mac OS X and I would have some feedback...
> - the iODBC library is contained in the Essential package (libiodbc.dylib);
> - Essential package contains pkgconfig file (int /usr/lib/pkgconfig)
> but not pkg-config script;
> - Xcode does not contain pkg-config either;
> - Apple removed isql.h and other iODBC include files from Xcode MacOSX
> 10.8 include directory. Also they removed iodbc-config. Did they
> decide to deprecate iODBC?

No, the package is contained in iODBC framework.

> - I installed iODBC PKG from iODBC website. The isql.h include try to
> include a <iODBC/sql.h> as isql.h is not supported anymore however
> there is no iODBC directory/link which contains a sql.h so the include
> fails!

You need to link with /Library/Frameworks/iODBC.Framework.
The iODBC/sql<xxx>.h are symbolic links to inside the iODBC Framework.

Thank you.

>
> Looks like they are trying to make thing much harder for developers :-(
>
> Not counting that my PKG database has still Xcode MacOSX 10.8 files
> but files are not present anymore.
>
>> Recently I had a report stating that ODBC on Mac OS X is compiling as
>> module instead of library causing some problems. I don't know if the
>> DM load drivers as module or as library. Actually there is no such
>> difference on other operating systems. What the difference between a
>> module and a library on Mac OS X?
>> Looking at 
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2339679/what-are-the-differences-between-so-and-dylib-on-osx
>> looks like module were required for dynamic loading. Nowadays however
>> dynamic libraries work always. I think the best option would be to use
>> modules if DM is used or library otherwise taking attention to link
>> only to DM instead of module.
>>
>
> Frediano
>
>>
>> 2016-06-10 15:10 GMT+01:00 Merle Reinhart <merlereinhart AT mac.com>:
>>> Frediano,
>>>
>>> That tarball fixes the compile issue at least on Mac OS X 10.11.x (El 
>>> Capitan).  Thanks!!!
>>>
>>> It turns out the problem would only occur when compiling FreeTDS with 
>>> iodbc.  It was fine compile with unixodbc.  I finally tracked down 'why' 
>>> it occurs.
>>>
>>> In iodbc, the sql.h include calls sqltypes.h which calls iodbcunix.h 
>>> which has a conditional definition of BYTE:
>>> #if defined (OBSOLETE_WINDOWS_TYPES)
>>> typedef unsigned char           BYTE;
>>> #endif
>>>
>>>
>>> In unixodbc, the sql.h include calls sqltypes.h which contains an 
>>> unconditional definition of BYTE:
>>> typedef unsigned char           BYTE;
>>>
>>> So, the compile would fail using iodbc apparently due to 
>>> OBSOLETE_WINDOWS_TYPES not being defined anywhere, but would work using 
>>> unixodbc.
>>>
>>> I was just about to report the exact same issue when I saw Ryan's mail.
>>>
>>>
>>> Again, thank you very much for all the work.
>>>
>>> Merle
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Message: 6
>>>> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:59:50 +0100
>>>> From: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>
>>>> To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [freetds] OSX distribution
>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>       
>>>> <CAHt6W4e0QrzuEAK8Gi4g1a9PxuN3uckDxeG1zi9M7xd7U_d40A AT mail.gmail.com>
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>>>>
>>>> 2016-06-06 12:25 GMT+01:00 Ryan Schmidt <freetds AT ryandesign.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 6, 2016, at 5:06 AM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2016-06-05 20:17 GMT+01:00 Igor Korot <ikorot01 AT gmail.com>:
>>>>>>> Hi, ALL,
>>>>>>> Is there a dmg file to download for the release?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is actually not any official Mac OS X release package.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm the maintainer of freetds in the MacPorts package management 
>>>>> system, and unfortunately, I've found that freetds 1.00 does not 
>>>>> compile on OS X. (0.95.x versions did.) The error is:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    In file included from odbc.c:51:
>>>>>    ../../include/odbcss.h:300:8: error: unknown type name 'BYTE'
>>>>>            const BYTE * colptr;
>>>>>                  ^
>>>>>    ../../include/odbcss.h:305:29: error: unknown type name 'BYTE'
>>>>>    bcp_colptr(HDBC hdbc, const BYTE * colptr, int table_column)
>>>>>                                ^
>>>>>    ../../include/odbcss.h:343:8: error: unknown type name 'BYTE'
>>>>>            const BYTE * varaddr;
>>>>>                  ^
>>>>>    ../../include/odbcss.h:346:8: error: unknown type name 'BYTE'
>>>>>            const BYTE * terminator;
>>>>>                  ^
>>>>>    ../../include/odbcss.h:353:27: error: unknown type name 'BYTE'
>>>>>    bcp_bind(HDBC hdbc, const BYTE * varaddr, int prefixlen, int varlen,
>>>>>                              ^
>>>>>    ../../include/odbcss.h:354:8: error: unknown type name 'BYTE'
>>>>>            const BYTE * terminator, int termlen, int vartype, int 
>>>>> table_column)
>>>>>                  ^
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Could you try 
>>>> ftp://ftp.freetds.org/pub/freetds/stable/freetds-1.00.1.tar.bz2 ?
>>>>
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