Re: FreeTDS driver for windows

2011/5/13 David Savelski <[email protected]>:
> Hi guys, thanks for your posts.
>
> I need a driver that I could load into Microsoft ODBC data sources
> (odbcad32.exe) like i use it under linux odbc.
>
> Can that be done? in what enviroment can i compile it?  Is there any
> compiled drivers for this already out there?
>
> Why can't it be downloaded and installed like db2 drivers or informix
> drivers...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>

You can... I don't exactly remember how :(

I think it should be possible to copy the dll and register with
regsrv32 (I know regsvr32 works for ActiveX but I wrote the code that
let our driver register with regsrv32!)

Frediano

>
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Andrew H. Wakefield
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> To answer the question another way, I am working on a project that needs
>> to be able to run on Windows and on Linux (and maybe on Mac, but haven't
>> gotten that far yet). I am using FreeTDS to connect to an MS-SQL Server
>> database. Using Linux as my development platform, I have had no problems
>> cross-compiling FreeTDS for Windows and using it in the cross-compiled
>> program running on Windows.
>>
>> Note that I am still using 0.82 -- one of these days I'll give .91 a
>> try, but for now my energy is best spent elsewhere.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 08:14 -0400, Ken Collins wrote:
>> > Luis Lavena did a series of patches in the latest code to allow FreeTDS
>> to be compiled on Windows. We did this because I prepackage a static library
>> for Ruby that includes FreeTDS for Windows as part of the TinyTDS project <
>> https://github.com/rails-sqlserver/tiny_tds>.
>> >
>> > So technically, your question would be does FreeTDS compile on Windows?
>> The answer should be yes and then it is a matter of what do you do with it
>> after that. The answer is whatever you want :) In my case, I wrote ruby C
>> extensions to make a driver for Ruby. You or others should be able to do the
>> same.
>> >
>> >  - Ken
>> >
>> >
>> > > Hi, Is there such a thing as FreeTDS driver for windows ?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Dave.
>> >
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