Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : libodbc3 Version : 3.0.5 Upstream Author : OpenLink Software Inc (http://www.openlinksw.org) * URL : http://www.iodbc.org/ * License : Either LGPL or BSD Description : iODBC library (version 3.0.*)
We do have libodbc2 which Chris takes from the mysql.org site. It never moved to the 3.0.* release there. My Perl DBD::ODBC package, i.e. libdbd-odbc-per, now needs v3 rather than v2. I am a little overcommitted in terms of packages and would prefer it if someone else packaged this. Dirk Original README follow: # # README # # (C) 1995-2001 OpenLink Software Inc. # # The iODBC driver manager. # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Library General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public # License along with this library; if not, write to the Free # Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. iODBC release Copyright 1995-2001 OpenLink Software and Ke Jin May be distributed under LGPL or BSD license 1. Introduction Welcome to the iODBC driver manager maintained by OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com) This kit will provide you with everything you need in order to develop ODBC compliant applications under Unix without having to pay royalties to other parties. This kit consists of a number of parts: o The iODBC driver manager. This is a complete implementation of an ODBC driver manager, released under either the GNU Library General Public License or the BSD License. We fully comply with these licenses by giving you this product in source form (as well as the binary form). You can download the latest version of the driver manager from http://www.iodbc.org/ o A simple example, odbctest.c, which gives you a command-line interface to SQL. You can fit this to your purposes, but at the very least this is useful for verification of your ODBC installation. You can use either part stand-alone, if you wish. An ODBC driver is still needed to affect your connection architecture. You may build a driver with the iODBC components or obtain an ODBC driver from a commercial vendor. OpenLink Software produces cross-platform commercial drivers as well as maintaining the iODBC distribution. Free, non-expiring copies may be obtained via download at http://www.openlinksw.com Any ODBC-compliant drivers will work with the iODBC Driver Manager. 2. Installation of run-time distribution You probably already unpacked this distribution. The next step is to make sure that your applications can find all the dynamic link libraries. Depending on your system's implementation of dynamic link libraries, you have a number of options: o Install the libraries in a directory that is searched by your linker by default. Typical locations are /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib. o Install the libraries in some other place, and make sure that the environment variable your dynamic linker uses to find extra locations for dynamic link libraries. Most systems use the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to this end. Exceptions are AIX which uses LIBPATH and HP/UX which uses SHLIB_PATH. If your system has a C compiler, you can verify the installation by compiling the odbctest program. Otherwise, you may have ODBC applications installed on your system which you can use. 3. Configuration of run-time distribution The iODBC driver manager looks for a file ~/.odbc.ini, where the tilde stands for the user's home directory. This file only contains a default section where you can select which driver library to use. Copy the odbc.ini file from the examples directory to ~/.odbc.ini and make sure the right path and filename is used for your installation. A data source is a section (enclosed in square parenthesis), and the attributes for a data source are given within this section. The most important attribute to iODBC for each datasource is the Driver attribute. This must point to the shared library for the ODBC driver associated with the data source. As example, the OpenLink ODBC drivers have a number of attributes which can be set for a data source. Here is a description (with ODBC connect string tags between parenthesis): Host The hostname where the database resides (HOST). ServerType The type of server (see oplrqb.ini on the server, SVT). ServerOptions Server-specific extra options. See OpenLink server documentation for agents which can use this. Database The database to use (DATABASE). Options Connect options for the database (OPTIONS). UserName The name of the user (a password cannot be specified in the UDBCINI file, UID/PWD). ReadOnly A Yes/No value in order to make the connection read-only (READONLY=Y/N). FetchBufferSize The number of records that are transferred in a single call to the server. Default is 5; maximum is 99, minimum is 1 (FBS=value). Protocol The protocol to use. Leave set to ``TCP'' for this release. Apart from these data source-specific settings, you may add a section called [Communications], which you may use to tune our driver further: ReceiveTimeout The time the client application will wait for the database agent to finish the request (default is 60 seconds). BrokerTimeout The time the client application will wait for the request broker to accept of reject a database connection (default is 30 seconds). SendSize RPC send buffer size. A value of 0 (the default) will cause the application to use system-dependent defaults. ReceiveSize RPC receive buffer size. A value of 0 (the default) will cause the application to use system-dependent defaults. DebugFile If set, the name of a file to which debugging output from the driver should be directed. 4. Contribution of changes, patches and updates. While not mandated by the BSD license, any patches you make to the iODBC may be contributed back into the iODBC project at your discretion. Contributions will benefit the Open Source and Data Access community as a whole. Submissions may be made at http://www.iodbc.org. 5. iODBC driver manager platform availability iODBC driver manager has been ported to following Unix platforms: SunOS 4.1.x Sun Sparc HP/UX 9.x, 10.x HP9000 s700/s800 HP/UX 9.x HP9000 s300/s400 IBM AIX 3.x, 4.x IBM RS6000, PowerPC Sun Solaris 2.x Sun Sparc, PCx86 SGI Irix SVR4 5.x, 6.x IP12 MIPS, IP22 MIPS NCR SVR4 3.x NCR 3435 UnixWare SVR4.2 1.x, 2.x x86 DEC Unix(OSF/1) 3.x, 4.x DEC Alpha FreeBSD 2.x x86 BSDI BSD/OS 2.x ? Linux ELF 1.2.x, 1.3.x x86 SCO OpenServer 5.x x86 Max/OS SVR4 1.x Concurrent Maxion 9200 MP DG/UX 5.x Aviion OpenVMS 6.x DEC Alpha Windows NT 4.x x86 As the iODBC driver manager uses autoconf/automake/libtool it should be portable to most modern UNIX platforms out of the box. However if you do need to make changes to the code or the configuration files, we would appreciate you share your changes with the rest of the internet community by mailing your patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so we can include them for the next build Porting of iODBC driver manager to some non-UNIX operating systems such as Windows family(3.x, 95, NT), OS/2 and Mac is supported but has not been compiled and tested recently. Of cause, you need to supply a make/build file and a short LibMain for creating the iodbc.dll. 6. How to build iODBC driver manager: step 1. Run configure to adjust to target platform step 2. Run make step 3. Run make install Here is an example: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-iodbc-inidir=/etc ... ... ... $ make ... ... ... $ su # make install ... ... ... The configure program will examine your system for various compiler flags, system options etc. In some cases extra flags need to be added for the C compiler to work properly. E.g. on HP systems you may need: $ CFLAGS="-Ae -O" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local .......... Note that the path of the system wide odbc.ini file is calculated as follows (based on flags to ./configure): no --prefix default is /usr/local/etc/odbc.ini --prefix=/usr /etc/odbc.ini --prefix=/xxx/yyy /xxx/yyy/etc/odbc.ini --sysconfdir=/xxx/yyy /xxx/yyy/odbc.ini --with-iodbc-inidir=/xxx/yyy /xxx/yyy/odbc.ini 7. odbc.ini Driver manager and drivers use odbc.ini file or connection string when establishing a data source connection. On Windows, odbc.ini is located in Windows directory. On UNIX, the iODBC driver manager looks for the odbc.ini file in the following sequence: 1. check environment variable ODBCINI 2. check $HOME/.odbc.ini 3. check home in /etc/passwd and try .odbc.ini in there 4. system wide odbc.ini (settable at configuration time) Item 1 is the easiest as most drivers will also look at this variable. The format of odbc.ini( or ~/.odbc.ini ) is defined as: odbc.ini ::= data_source_list data_source_list ::= /* empty */ | data_source '\n' data_source_list data_source ::= '[' data_source_name ']' '\n' data_source_desc data_source_name ::= 'default' | [A-Za-z]*[A-Za-z0-9_]* data_source_desc ::= /* empty */ | attrib_desc '\n' data_source_desc addrib_desc ::= Attrib '=' attrib_value Attrib ::= 'Driver' | 'PID' | 'UID' | driver_def_attrib driver_def_attrib ::= [A-Za-z]*[A-Za-z0-9_]* An example of an odbc.ini file: ; ; odbc.ini ; [ODBC Data Sources] Myodbc = Myodbc Sample = OpenLink Generic ODBC Driver Virtuoso = Virtuoso [Sample] Driver = /usr/local/openlink/lib/oplodbc.so.1 Description = Sample OpenLink DSN Host = localhost UserName = openlink Password = xxxx ServerType = Oracle 8 Database = FetchBufferSize = 99 ReadOnly = no TraceFile = /tmp/odbc.trace Trace = 1 [Virtuoso] Driver = /usr/local/virtuoso/lib/virtodbc.so.1 Address = localhost:1112 Database = Demo [Myodbc] Driver = /home/patrick/src/iODBC/new/myodbc/myodbc.so HOST = localhost [Default] Driver = /usr/local/openlink/lib/oplodbc.so.1 8. Tracing iODBC driver manager traces driver's ODBC call invoked by the driver manager. Default tracing file is ./odbc.log. Tracing option (i.e. on/off or optional tracing file name) can be set in odbc.ini file (under a data source section) as: TraceFile = <optional_trace_file> Trace = ON | On | on | 1 | OFF | Off | off | 0 If <optional_trace_file> is stderr or stdout, i.e. TraceFile = stderr or TraceFile = stdout the tracing message will go to the terminal screen (if it is available). iODBC driver manager allows one to tune on/off tracing on selected connection(s). Different connections can share one or use different tracing file(s). ODBC calls on connections without tuning tracing on will not be traced. 9. Further Information Sources: http://www.iodbc.org iODBC project home page. Binaries, source, WebCVS, and Discussion Forum. http://www.openlinksw.com OpenLink Software. Free non-expiring trials and support for OpenLink's ODBC drivers. http://www.microsoft.com/data/odbc/ Microsoft's ODBC pages. -- Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement. -- Fred Brooks
