Re: Library loading

Richard Gibson wrote:
> 
> 
> I also
> believe that libtds is for internal use by the FreeTDS library - is this
> correct?

Yes.  Current versions don't normally create libtds as a shared object.  
 
> So, I am left with libct and libsybdb. I know that there are three APIs
> (db-lib, ct-lib and odbc) and I am looking to use either db-lib or
> ct-lib. Which of the two libraries (libct and libsybdb) should I load?
> Does each .so correspond to a certain API, or does one .so provide more
> than one API?

libct is ct-lib; libsybdb is db-lib.  

I recommend db-lib because it's constantly improved.  No one has worked on
ct-lib much in several years.  

> Additionally, what are the entry point function names? 

Cf. doc/api_status.txt in your distribution.  

> I also extracted most of the functions in the .so using readelf -a but
> I'm none the wiser.

nm(1) is your friend.  

HTH. 

--jkl