Here's a little how-to to build DBD::Sybase in the Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com) environment under Windows.
First - you need to have Sybase OpenClient installed. This is pretty easy to get from http://www.sybase.com/ase_1252devel/. Second, you need to map the entry points to the Sybase DLLs to something that gcc can use. I've built a set of .a files (libcs.a, libct.a and libblk.a) that provide these entry points - you can get them from http://www.peppler.org/downloads/cygwin.tar.gz. Install the .a files in /usr/local/lib so that the build will find them easily. Third, grab the most recent "dev" release of DBD::Sybase 1.04_14 or later, available from http://www.peppler.org/downloads/). Now build this as usual (perl Makefile.PL, etc) making sure that the SYBASE and SYBASE_OCS environment variables are set correctly. Et voilą! If you don't want to download/use the dev release, you can achieve the same result like this: After installing the cygwin libct/cs/blk.a files, run perl Makefile.PL in the DBD::Sybase source directory. Now edit the generated Makefile, and add -D_MSC_VER=800 to the CCFLAGS macro, and change the EXTRALIBS and LDLOADLIBS macros to EXTRALIBS= -lcs -lct -lblk LDLOADLIBS= -lcs -lct -lblk and now run make. For those of us who prefer a Unix-like feel this gives a nice alternative to the ActiveState version of perl. Michael -- Michael Peppler Data Migrations, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.peppler.org/ Sybase T-SQL/OpenClient/OpenServer/C/Perl developer available for short or long term contract positions - http://www.peppler.org/resume.html
