Re: building on Windows
"Paul Thurston" <[email protected]>
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Building FreeTDS on Windows is quite a chore. I recently did a successful native build in Windows 2008 and Vista Enterprise. There are some code bugs in the build (particularly in the net.c file) which don't handle Windoze socket initialization. Minimally, you'll need a compiler, at least Visual Studio VC6 or above. I used VC9. I don't recommend gong the cygwin route. The performance hit is substantial. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig A. Berry Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:14 PM To: FreeTDS Development Group Subject: Re: [freetds] building on Windows On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Ryan Perry wrote: > I'm using Strawberry perl on Windows to connect to MSSQL. On the > machine I want to build on I don't think I have a compiler of any kind > (maybe perl installed one?). I want to connect using DBD::Sybase, but > I don't understand how to install FreeTDS on Windows (I usually live > in unix land). Some guidance would be much appreciated... I'm pretty sure recent versions come with gcc via mingw, though the home page at <http://strawberryperl.com/> is rather devoid of actual information about what's in it. I would say try to get to a shell prompt, pretend it's not Windows, and see what blows up. Apparently it comes with DBD::ODBC, so that may be another option if DBD::Sybase proves troublesome (but you'd still need FreeTDS's driver). ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[email protected] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser _______________________________________________ FreeTDS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/freetds