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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:47:43 +0400
From: Maarten Boekhold <boekhold AT emirates DOT net DOT ae>
Subject: Re: Using Sybase DLLs from Cygwin apps
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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

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