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List:       dbi-dev
Subject:    ODBC, freeODBC, header files, and expensive SDK's
From:       kendall () cogit ! com (Kendall Willets)
Date:       1996-11-22 16:53:53
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Recently I have been ramping up to do some odbc (client, not driver) programming 
on Solaris, and after looking at the technicalities involved, I realized that 
the entire price of an ODBC SDK ($995) covers exactly two header files (sql.h 
and sqlext.h) needed to compile a program before linking it to the driver 
manager libraries, which come free with the Sun.  

I was excited to find that iodbc has its own versions of these files, but for 
some reason they don't include the prototypes for the odbc functions. These 
prototypes are required for client programs, but not for iodbc code itself, 
since iodbc defines but does not call each API function.  

After a some deep thought I grepped the prototypes for each function from 
compiler trace files and built a new header file "freeODBC.h", which allows an  
ODBC program to compile and run.  In retrospect it seems obvious that someone 
would produce this file, but I haven't seen any mention of it anywhere, so I 
have to ask if this has already been invented, or if I'm just terribly confused. 

Thanks,


Kendall


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