Re: FreeTDS driver for windows

If anybody is looking into packaging FreeTDS on Windows, I've used Wix
(wix.sourceforge.net) for another project compiled with mingw and it
works really well to generate an .msi file and register
services/drivers and whatnot.  It was surprisingly easy.

Brian


On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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