[Gambas-user] Repost of "ODBC mod needed" message in devel list.

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 22/08/2015 17:02, zxMarce a écrit :
> Hi Benoît,
>
> I apologize for cross-posting in advance, but  I made a post in the devel
> list
> <http://gambas.8142.n7.nabble.com/Change-to-gb-db-odbc-to-use-ODBC-Connection-Strings-td52283.html>
> and I don´t think anyone saw it, so I am reposting it here.
>
> Basically, I altered the Gambas 3.8 *gb.db.odbc* component sources so the
> *Connection*´s *.Host* property can be used either as a Host (an ODBC DSN,
> actually) as it originally was intended, or an ODBC connection string
> (DSN-Less connections, in ODBC parlance). Connecting DSN-Less is what I need
> to do.
>
> So, I patched the component sources to do the job (beware - I am not a C
> programmer, but I can read, try to understand, copy-paste and edit), but I
> don´t know how to compile it to test it, or whom to send it so it gets in
> the mainstream packages if it works. The mods are better explained in the
> devel post.
>
> What I´d need is two things:
> 1- How to compile and install my modded component (prefereably compile it
> alone having made a backup of the original binary component), and
> 2- Whom to send the modded sources for further test and publishing.
>
> One more thing I´ll be needing help with is a better check of End-Of-Data.
> It turns out that MS SQL Servers are lazy as hell and for a SELECT record
> count they (usually) respond *-1 Records Available*. There IS a way to do it
> right, yet I think it won´t be as easy as being able to connect with a
> connection string... Anyway this is for later.
>
> TIA,
> zxMarce.
>

I saw it. I will answer you on the dev mailing-list...

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Benoît Minisini