On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:40:50AM +0200, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Friedrich Dominicus <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Friedrich Dominicus <
> > > [email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >     Friedrich Dominicus <[email protected]> writes:
> > >
> > >     > "Schwab,Wilhelm K" <[email protected]> writes:
> > >     >
> > >     >> I haven't had much trouble with it.  You can look in the inbox for
> > >     >> Migrate (for how I load it) and the DolphinCompatibility package
> > for
> > >     >> things that I have added to the ODBC support.
> > >     > Are there any usage examples for ODBC and Pharo or is it go out and
> > find
> > >     > out yourself? And another maybe stupid question has anyone used it
> > for
> > >     > accessing .mdb databases from MS-Access?
> > >     Ok i'm probabla currently a bit confused. AFAIKT the Pharo I've
> > running
> > >     here is 32-bit. My machine however is a 64-bit System, so to use the
> > >     unixodbc I probably would need the 32-bit version of the unixodbc
> > >     driver. Is that correct?
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes. Exactly. To compile ODBC you may want to try something like we did
> > in
> > > SqueakDBX:
> > >
> > > http://www.squeakdbx.org/SqueakDBX%20in%2064%20bits
> > Thanks my confusion has not last that long. I just was puzzling why isql
> > does connect but Pharo won't. Sure the reason is clear, but it has
> > catched me. Fine, I'm trying to get unixodbc compiled an installed on my
> > 64 bit box. I just wonder has anyone build a 64-bit Pharo?
> >
> 
> More or less. Because you need: a 64 bits VM, and a 64 bits image as much as
> I understand.
> In addition, there are certain bugs in FFI about using it in 64 bits.
> 

Details here:
http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7237

FFI can be made to work on 64-bits but it is difficult and complicated, so
if you are just trying to get ODBC working you should stick with 32 bit
binaries.

Dave


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