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Re: Using Sybase DLLs from Cygwin apps




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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