Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <213ED6CF802ED111A0AB00805F0DD471F9ED6F@WN01EX> From: "Craveiro, Marco" To: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" Subject: dao and databases Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 11:03:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain hello everyone, i'm a newbie using egcs 2.91.57, and i need access to a relational database from c++; a simple engine will do because the volume of transactions is small(ish). i searched the faq's for dao and databases but i could not find anything of interest. i then noticed that there is a folder in my pc with dao350.dll (see end of mail); after reading Colin Peter's material on how to use dll's (http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6162/gcc.html), i was wondering if it is possible to follow those procedures there to access the microsoft jet engine, and if that particular dll has everything i need - or there is some other trickery envolved. (btw, i also read Emanuele Aliberti yesterday's mail Re: Dlls @n symbols). if i'm completely wrong and there is other simpler ways to use a relational database, please let me know. thanks! __soup_dragon__ "better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven." Milton FOLDER: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DAO CONTENTS: Dao2535.tlb Dao35.aw Dao35.cnt Dao35.fts Dao35.hlp Dao350.dll dao35.GID Mscreate.dir -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com