Re: building on Windows

Paul Thurston wrote:
> 
> Building FreeTDS on Windows is quite a chore.

I wrote a makefile for nmake.exe that builds db-lib.  (It could easily be
extended for ODBC; that just wasn't my goal.)  I *thought* I committed it,
but I see not.  If someone's interested and you don't see it in Monday's
snapshot, complain to me.  

> I recently did a successful native build in Windows 2008 and Vista
> Enterprise.

XP and VS 2005.  

> There are some code bugs in the build (particularly in the net.c file)
> which don't handle Windoze socket initialization.

I had some issues along those lines.  I assert they're fixed in CVS HEAD: 


  Fri Feb  6 19:22:16 EST 2009    JK Lowden <[email protected]>
        * include/sybdb.h include/tds.h src/dblib/dblib.c 
        * src/tds/convert.c src/tds/mem.c src/tds/net.c
        - better winsock initialization and dbdatecrack

If you found other problems, please send your patch.  

--jkl