Prerequisites ============= - libodb http://www.codesynthesis.com/products/odb/ - libodbc (UNIX only) http://www.unixodbc.org/ - SQL Server Native Client http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/aa937733 Building on UNIX ================ The following build instructions are for the Linux/UNIX/Mac OS X operating systems as well as for Cygwin and MinGW on Windows. The standard autotools-based build system is used on these platforms. After unpacking the source code archive, change to the libodb-mssql package directory (referred to as libodb-mssql/ from now on) and run the configure script: ./configure To see the available configuration options run configure with --help: ./configure --help The configure script expects the libodb and libodbc headers and libraries to be installed in a directory where the C++ compiler and linker will search for them by default (normally /usr and /usr/local). If these libraries are installed in other directories, you can use the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS configure variables to specify their locations, for example: ./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/libodb/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/libodb/lib If libodb is not installed and you would like to use its build directory instead, you can use the --with-libodb configure option to specify its location, for example: ./configure --with-libodb=/tmp/libodb As another example, the following configure command only builds shared libraries, uses the specified C++ compiler, and compiles with optimization and without debug information: ./configure --disable-static CXX=g++-4.5 CXXFLAGS=-O3 Once configuration is complete, run make to build libodb-mssql: make Once the build is completed successfully, you can install the libodb-mssql headers and libraries using the install target (you may need to do this step as root depending on the installation directory): make install Building on Windows =================== The following build instructions are for Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio. If you would like to build libodb-mssql with GCC either using Cygwin or MinGW, refer to the "Building on UNIX" section above. The standard Visual Studio project and solution files are used on this platform. The provided project files expect the libodb header and import library directories to be in the VC++ Directories Include and Library search lists. See the INSTALL file in the libodb package directory for more information on how to setup the VC++ Directories. To build libodb-mssql, unpack the source code archive and open the libodb-mssql-vc<N>.sln file located in the libodb-mssql package directory (referred to as libodb-mssql\ from now on). Here <N> is the version of Visual Studio that you are using. Once the solution is open, select the desired build configuration (Debug or Release) and platform (Win32 or x64) and build the solution. The resulting 32-bit DLLs and import libraries are placed into the libodb-mssql\bin\ and libodb-mssql\lib\ directories, respectively. Similarly, the 64-bit DLLs and import libraries are placed into libodb-mssql\bin64\ and libodb-mssql\lib64\. The Release versions of the import libraries are named odb-mssql.lib and the Debug versions are named odb-mssql-d.lib. To configure Visual Studio to automatically locate the libodb-mssql headers, DLLs, and import libraries, add the following paths to your VC++ Directories: Win32: Include: ...\libodb-mssql Library: ...\libodb-mssql\lib Executable: ...\libodb-mssql\bin x64: Include: ...\libodb-mssql Library: ...\libodb-mssql\lib64 Executable: ...\libodb-mssql\bin64