SUCCESS: Partial success compiling Sybperl 2.18 under cygwin

Excellent - thanks for that. The CONFIG file is well documented - not
sure why I didn't figure that out myself ... always looking for the
hard way!

So after I:

* disable DBLib as below
* perl Makefile.PL
* amend the Makefiles as per the email linked below
* make

The build process goes fine. It seems that BCP.pm and Sybperl.pm are also
skipped - I assume they depend on the old DBLib?

The test process isn't smart about skipping tests that need DBLib,
BCP.pm or Sybperl.pm - according to the test harness, t/5_sybperl.t
failed 200% of it's tests!!

all the _ct_ tests passed however which is excellent!

Thanks again.

Mark.

PS: Leaving entire annoying email chain below for best googling usefulness

On 1/1/1970, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I don't remember right now how I did the .a files, and I don't have access
>to the computer that might have the information at the moment (I'm at work,
>the computer's at home :-)
>
>However, if you edit the CONFIG file in the sybperl source directory and
>set DBLIBVS to 0 then the Sybase::DBlib build should normally be skipped,
>and all should be well. There may be test errors (I haven't made sure that
>make test does the right thing in this situation in a long time), but at
>least you shouldn't get any build errors.
>
>Michael
>
>
>
>
>Internet
>[email protected]@peppler.org - 09/01/2006 06:21
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>
>Sent by:    [email protected]
>
>To:    sybperl-l
>
>cc:
>
>
>Subject:    Fwd: Partial success compiling Sybperl 2.18 under cygwin
>
>
>
>Hello everyone.
>
>I have hit the problem (documented in numerous places) that current
>versions of the Sybase open client for Windows don't seem to contain
>enough symbol information to build cygwin .a files from their dll's.
>
>In order to work around that, Michael Peppler "built a set of .a files
>(libcs.a, libct.a and libblk.a) that provide these entry points" - see
>http://www.peppler.org/archive/sybperl-l/2004/11/7962.html
>
>According to this email, these archives were built to allow DBD::Sybase
>to be compiled against new open client dlls under cygwin. I followed the
>steps in that email (including modifying all Makefiles in the
>Sybase::Sybperl distro), plus I copyied the sybase ocs header files to
>/usr/local/include.
>
>I have been able to get it all to compile except for the DBLib directory.
>I assume that's because Michael has only supplied .a files for CS, CT
>and BLK.
>
>I get a whole bunch of linker errors like:
>
>DBlib.o:DBlib.c:(.text+0x2214): undefined reference to `_dbgetuserdata@4'
>DBlib.o:DBlib.c:(.text+0x2c2f): undefined reference to `_dbconvert@28'
>
>etc. A quick google for dbgetuserdata tells me that it is indeed a Sybase
>DBLib api call.
>
>I'm not sure how Michael built these files (from memory of other emails
>i have seen it was from an older version of OCS?), but I guess I have
>two options:
>
>1/ somehow generate an appropriate symbol file for dblib
>2/ remove the dblib stuff from the Sybperl module since I don't think
>any of my code needs it.
>
>Does anyone have any info that would be useful for me?
>
>sybperl version: 2.18 (from peppler.org)
>perl version: 5.8.7
>cygwin version: not sure, but it's less than 2 months old
>ocs version: 12.5.1
>
>Cheers,
>
> Mark.)
>
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