Wed Oct 14 17:28:30 2009: Request 50450 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by j...@activestate.com
Queue: Win32-ODBC
Subject: RE: [rt.cpan.org #50450] Report a bug in Win32-ODBC
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Owner: Nobody
Requestors: sz...@hydeparkglobal.com
Status: open
Ticket <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50450 >
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Reini Urban via RT wrote:
> Queue: Win32-ODBC
> Ticket <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50450 >
>
> You miss libODBC. I'll propose such a package to cygwin, I've forgot it.
> You can also use the official pre.packaged perl-libwin32 package. It's
> linked statically.
I remember that I once tried to build Win32-ODBC on Cygwin before making
a release to CPAN, and did not succeed. I found some old message from
you on the Cygwin mailing list about patching some ODBC library and then
installing it, but it didn't really work out and I gave up.
So it would be good to have a libODBC for Cygwin that you could install
with the regular Cygwin installer (it doesn't exist yet AFAICT). Then
the Win32-ODBC Makefile.PL could probe for it and give a meaningful error
message when it can't find it.
Patches welcome! :)
Cheers,
-Jan
