Re: building freetds on windows

2014-06-22 14:16 GMT+01:00 ericP <[email protected]>:

> Some code base I'm working on (SWObjects, if you care) has a freetds
> driver, as well as a few other database drivers. Apart from the
> freetds driver, the rest of the code builds on Windows without a lot
> of fiddling.
>
> The freetds, which builds trivially on linux, seems to require some
> extra infrastructure on Windows. The Nmake recipe
>
>   nmake -fNmakefile -nologo apps PLATFORM=win32 CONFIGURATION=debug
>     <http://www.freetds.org/userguide/osissues.htm#WINDOWS>
>
> works but doesn't build include/tds_sysdep_public.h from the .in.  I
> figured that configure would run autoconf and generate the appropriate
> files but /bin/sh is rare on Windows. I used the MINGW32 shell that
> comes with gitshell but that whined about missing DLLs
> (e.g. mspdb100.dll when runing MSVC's cl.exe, cygintl-2.dll when just
> running configure).
>
> I eventually copied tds_sysdep_public.h{.in,} and edited out all the
> stuff with automake macros (the bottom half of the file). It built and
> linked, but I haven't tested 'cause I'm not half smart enough to
> configure MS SQL.
>
> Presuming the above recipe worked and was necessary, I'd like to
> streamline it a bit by having windows builds for autoconf files (well, at
> least the one that I needed). It seems more likely that I missed a simple
> way for MSVC folks to do this (i.e. doesn't involve cygwin, ming, etc.).
>
>
>
Hi,
  did you try with cmake ?

Frediano