Re: [gnome-db] ODBC provider on MinGW/MSYS

["Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz users sourceforge net>]

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Brecht Sanders wrote:
>   reason: the Windows ODBC stuff doesn't live under a w32api on MinGW
>   the cleanest solution would be to patch configure.in and after the block:
>                 if test -f $d/$lib/w32api/libodbc32.a -a -f
> $d/include/w32api/sql.h
>                 then
>                         AC_MSG_RESULT(found ODBC32 in $d)
>                         odbclib="-lodbc32"
>                         odbcdir=$d
>                         break
>                 fi
>   add the block:
>                 if test -f $d/$lib/libodbc32.a -a -f $d/include/sql.h
>                 then
>                         AC_MSG_RESULT(found ODBC32 in $d)
>                         odbclib="-lodbc32"
>                         odbcdir=$d
>                         break
>                 fi

OK.

> - in providers/odbc/gda-odbc.h replace the line:
>                 #if defined(__CYGWIN__)
>   with:
>                 defined(G_OS_WIN32)

You need to use G_PLATFORM_WIN32 instead, as with anything common to
both Cygwin and MinGW.

> - in providers/odbc/gda-odbc-provider.h replace the line:
>                 #ifdef __CYGWIN__
>   with:
>                 defined(G_OS_WIN32)

Ditto for G_PLATFORM_WIN32.

> Can you please implement these changes?

In the future, could someone CC: me on proposed MinGW changes?  There's
some overlap, and I would like to avoid unnecessary breakage.

> I'm sure more reports like this will follow because I also have problems
> compiling the providers for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle.

You will want to check these bugs first:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349548
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411811
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412122
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418116


Yaakov
Cygwin Ports
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