On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:58:57 +0200 Reinier Olislagers <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 29-3-2012 15:00, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > > .... Already run on Windows; it's meanwhile been tested and approved by > > Ludo Brands on Linux. > > > > Anybody willing to apply it (optionally with less ugly icons) - or > > assign it to himself? > > > > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=21578 > > > > Mattias, thanks for applying. > > You mentioned in the bug report that you wanted to include the example > programs but wondered if there's a way to do it without FreeTDS > dblib.dll (and its dependency, iconv*.dll). > Can't comment in the bug itself, as it is closed. AFAIK there is no example yet for this stuff, so it would be helpful. Only x-platform examples are put into Lazarus sources. Do you have a x-platform example? > As far as I know: no. There might be a Microsoft-supplied dblib.dll but > that must have been very old. Can't find it in a SQL Server 2008 Express > install. Think I also searched on a regular SQL Server 2008 and Sybase > 15 install. > > Adding the samples with a readme stating users have to download/install > the FreeTDS libraries seems to be a sane alternative. > > FYI, Marco v.d. Voort did indicate in the related FPC bug (17303 not > 21571 as I had indicated in the bug report, sorry): > "I don't think FPC should go into the third party DLL building and > distributing business. > > Sure, we can put the DLL in contrib/ if the license allows. " > Don't know what contrib/ is; presumably an SVN URL? > > The FreeTDS license is LGPL: > http://www.freetds.org/faq.html#license Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
