sybperl for cygwin

mdupont has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear PerlMonks, I am an avid user of sybase, perl and cygwin under win2k. I have been trying to port the Sybase::CTLib and sybperl to cygwin.

Currently I have followed the advice from peter http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-12/msg00302.html and I will be looking into the work from the sqlsh port for some tips.

I am having a problem creating a linkable ctlib.a for the existing ctlib.dll and ctlib.lib

But I have the feeling that someone else might have done this, and I figured that I will ask before I continue if you have any experience or tips on this matter.

mdupont

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Re: sybperl for cygwin by Asim (Hermit) on Nov 13, 2001 at 21:42 UTC
If you like the challenge, don't let me stop you -- it's always cool to test your abilities and knowledge. At the same time, I wonder if you'd be better off moving to the better-supported DBI setup, and using something like Apache::DBI for persistence. Just some ideas to think about. And, of course, you may have very valid reasons for using sybperl, in which case please continue, and good luck. ----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.	[reply]
Re: Re: sybperl for cygwin by mdupont (Scribe) on Nov 13, 2001 at 22:56 UTC
Asim, There is a difference between DBD::Sybase and sybperl which I both use. They depend on the c-library ctlib, of which there is a replacement freetds that also works with sybperl. Point being the problems with linking to a windows library using cygwin. The code in DBD::Sybase also uses the base of the sybperl functionality of the open client library. mdupont	[reply]
Re: sybperl for cygwin by mpeppler (Vicar) on Nov 14, 2001 at 02:51 UTC
What sort of problems do you have? I'm not familiar with cygwin (or Windows in general :-), but a failed link is usually the sign that you are missing a library, or something like that. I know that Scott Gray gets sqsh (http://www.sqsh.org/) to build under cygwin, and that uses the same libraries, so it should be possible. Michael	[reply]