help from Windows developer sought: use system ODBC headers

[Robert Antoni Buj i Gelonch]

If you are interested with MS ODBC drivers... I would like to recommend you
the following page: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlnativeclient/

Regards,
Ribert

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Robert Antoni Buj i Gelonch <
robert.buj at gmail.com> wrote:

> What odbc driver are you using for Windows?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity#Drivers
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel at mamane.lu>
> wrote:
>
>> I've discovered (via the tinderboxes...) that --with-system-odbc
>> doesn't work on Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Windows is the "reference
>> platform" of ODBC (the platform that *defines* ODBC), I had *much*
>> *much* rather we use (on the reference platform) the headers provided
>> by the platform, rather than some headers meant for ANOTHER platform
>> (namely, Unix) which *try* to be compatible (and maybe are in a
>> bug-free way, but why take the risk).
>>
>> So, if some LibreOffice developer with Microsoft Windows experience
>> could debug why "--with-system-odbc" doesn't find the ODBC headers on
>> Windows, I'd be very grateful. I expect they are in the platform SDK,
>> maybe in some optional part of it, ...
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 02:59:31PM +0200, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
>> > Hi Lionel,
>> >
>> > kendy at suse.cz píše v Út 16. 09. 2014 v 12:03 +0000:
>> >
>> > > checking for sqlext.h... no
>> > > configure: error: odbc not found. install odbc
>> > > Error running configure at /home/tinderbox/master/autogen.sh line 258.
>> >
>> > I've reverted the 'Use system ODBC on MS Windows unless specifically
>> > overriden' for now, it breaks the Windows tinderboxes...
>> >
>> > All the best,
>> > Kendy
>> >
>> >
>> >
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