Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:47:43 +0400 From: Maarten Boekhold Subject: Re: Using Sybase DLLs from Cygwin apps In-reply-to: <20041123173620.GA1264@tishler.net> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-id: <41A6EDAF.8080200@emirates.net.ae> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 - [MOOX M3] (Windows/20041105) References: <1101230373 DOT 3390 DOT 59 DOT camel AT localhost DOT localdomain> <20041123173620 DOT GA1264 AT tishler DOT net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Jason Tishler wrote: > Why not use FreeTDS (http://www.freetds.org/) instead of the Sybase's > Win32 libraries? IIRC, both sqsh and FreeTDS build OOTB under Cygwin. > FWIW, I have used Cygwin sqsh/FreeTDS successfully with Microsoft SQL > Server. However, YMMV with Sybase... For sqsh, FreeTDS works fine, however I suspect that Michael's ultimate goal is to link DBD::Sybase (Michael is the maintainer of that) with the Sybase libraries. It's possible to build DBD::Sybase with FreeTDS, but it doesn't have complete functionality. '?' placeholders in prepared statements don't work because FreeTDS doesn't support them yet for Sybase databases. That's a pretty important piece of functionality that's missing. It's funny, I've been trying the same thing as Michael yesterday, for probably the same reasons. I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to try to help out the FreeTDS team to implement the missing functionality. Maarten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/