Compile freetds windows

What can we do using cmake to build freetds on windows with gnutls? The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. Yes, not much supported. Sorry, something went wrong. Anyway, I've read on several mailing lists that the use of gnuTLS is strongly discouraged!

The output of tsql -C shows:. Compile-time settings established with the "configure" script Version: freetds v1.

Did you compile for Windows or Unix? Which compiler did you use? In the time being here are some more points. I handle that at the visitor and what it does is of no concern to a raw connection. There only only a few places where we delegate to the different backends. The code should be self explanatory on what is needed and you will know quickly if things are working when you run the test suite. I would not consider it far fetched for someone to write a gem that would wrap a raw connection in a simple DSL that could be considered agnostic for all DBs from ActiveRecord to these ADO modes.

If you made a gem that wrapped ADODB and passed all the tests that TinyTDS passes, then it would mean that the code in the adapter for calling to that raw connection would be lean and mean. I have been using rake-compiler since day one : and I just found out yesterday that you are the author! I will happily take any pull request since I am sure it will help school me on the topic too.

Once you do get to that point and need any questions answered, lemme know or find me on rails-sqlserver. FreeTDS on Windows. Luis Lavena. Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message.

Ken Collins. May I ask another question? You normally need to be root to make install , unless you used the --prefix option during configuration to install into your own directory. With any luck, you've built and installed the FreeTDS libraries. Create a file to hold your configure options called, say,. Create a build directory for the binaries, and invoke.. This approach lets you remove the binaries at any time and rebuild from scratch using the same options.

How to build: Configure and make Prev Chapter 2. How to build: Configure and make. For Experts. For Everyone Else. ODBC Preparation. Should be used only by a developer or a brave user : --enable-odbc-wide-tests Compile ODBC tests to use wide characters.

Test will use wide versions. Download the tarball and unpack it. Change to the freetds directory. See the User Guide for details. Your favorite operating system may have a package of some kind available. You might want to check there. Occasionally someone contributes a package here, which we keep around. Post a message to the list if you're looking for one and don't find one in the usual places. Microsoft servers don't usually accept TDS 5.

Use one of versions 7. New servers sometimes introduce new protocol features, but the changes are small, and they're always compatible with old clients. Generally, you should use the latest version of the TDS protocol for your server.

If you don't see your question answered there or, if you'd just like to learn more about what's going on with FreeTDS , please subscribe to the mailing list. Questions new and old are cheerfully answered there. Traffic is not high, normally around 10 messages a day. Netiquette note : It's considered poor form to mail "help me" questions directly to the developers of any free software project, this one included.

Please direct your question to the list, where someone with the available time and expertise can help you. Thanks also go to the folks at A2i, Inc. Brian Bruns started the project, and that's the choice he made. LGPL was chosen because if you want a commercial client, you can buy them from Sybase, Microsoft or others. The best information is available from the vendors.

FreeTDS means to conform to the documented and, in some cases, undocumented behavior of the vendors' offerings. There is preliminary documentation available. The most up to date version is in the User Guide. Sybase publishes its TDS 5. Microsoft published its specification, too. You will want to set this to the main FreeTDS directory.