[Zope] Sybase DA + FreeBSD + TDS

[Chris McDonough]

I tried (as did Anthony Baxter, I beleive) to compile dcSybaseDA against
FreeTDS.  I averted doing any actual work necessary to make it fly,
however :^).

A noble effort!  Thanks for the heads up...

Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
> 
> Ok I said I was going to get it to work, and damnit I did (well missing
> some non-crucial functionality like ct_diag() ), but, don't get excited
> yet because there is some bad news...
> 
> You have to do some serious munging of the freetds codebase including
> copying over all the Sybase include files from the sybase distribution,
> as well as commenting out a lot of stuff from the SybaseAdapter (the Linux
> Sybase libraries I had didn't seem to be as up to date as the ones the
> Adapter was linked against).
> 
> Because I actually had to use the Sybase files and alter them a bit, I
> don't think I'm going to be able to put up any code to help anyone out :-(
> I was really really hoping it might compile almost out of the box and I wouldn't
> have to compromise myself by looking at the Sybase files.
> 
> It only took a few hours of hacking to pull the FreeTDS library into
> shape and about 30 mins to clean up the Sybase Adapter enough to get it to
> compile...
> 
> So if you were wondering if it is possible, I can tell you that it is, but,
> with some non-trivial effort.

Chris McDonough
Digital Creations, Inc.
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