Re: Using Sybase DLLs from Cygwin apps

[Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>]

Michael,

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 06:19:33PM +0100, Michael Peppler wrote:
> I'm trying to build sqsh under Cygwin and I'm running into a problem
> with decorate vs. non-decorated library symbols.
> 
> Sybase uses the __stdcall calling convention for its libraries under
> Windows, so gcc generates symbols like _ct_results@8.
> 
> I've gone through the Cygwin docs on linking with Windows DLLs, and I've
> generated three .def files and .a files using the following:

See below...

> [snip]
>
> Any ideas and suggestions would be appreciated.

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...

Jason

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