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

... d4t4full at ...626...
Sat Aug 22 17:47:00 CEST 2015


Benoît,

Thanks a lot!

Regards.



On Aug 22, 2015, 12:45, at 12:45, "Benoît Minisini" <gambas at ...1...> wrote:
>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...
>
>-- 
>Benoît Minisini
>
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