help from Windows developer sought: use system ODBC headers

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

No driver is not used at build time. The driver used at runtime is
whichever driver the user asks for, usually via a DSN (that is, the
driver that the DSN is for). The MySQL driver to connect to MySQL, one
of the multiple PostgreSQL drivers to connect to PostgreSQL, the DB/2
driver to connect to DB/2, etc, etc.

I refer to the headers provided by the OSDBC "meta-system" (the driver
manager if you want), which is a "system part" of Microsoft Windows,
under the umbrella of MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components).

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 07:11:14PM +0200, Robert Antoni Buj i Gelonch 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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