What am I doing wrong here?

Is that stuff (ie freetds-0.82) getting a bit old ? The webpage apparently hasn't been updated since August 2006.
And it says on that webpage that this is a library for Unix and Linux. Maybe there's something better for Windows machines. (I know absolutely nothing about Sybase.)

When I build that freetds-0.82 library on my Windows Vista box using the MinGW compiler (in the msys shell), the following files are built: 
bin/
bin/bsqldb.exe
bin/bsqlodbc.exe
bin/datacopy.exe
bin/defncopy.exe
bin/freebcp.exe
bin/osql
bin/tdspool.exe
bin/tsql.exe
etc/
etc/freetds.conf
etc/locales.conf
etc/pool.conf
include/
include/bkpublic.h
include/cspublic.h
include/cstypes.h
include/ctpublic.h
include/sqldb.h
include/sqlfront.h
include/sybdb.h
include/syberror.h
include/sybfront.h
include/tds_sysdep_public
lib/
lib/libct.a
lib/libct.la
lib/libsybdb.a
lib/libsybdb.la
lib/libtdsodbc.a
lib/libtdsodbc.la
man/
man/man1/
man/man1/bsqldb.1
man/man1/bsqlodbc.1
man/man1/datacopy.1
man/man1/defncopy.1
man/man1/fisql.1
man/man1/freebcp.1
man/man1/osql.1
man/man1/tsql.1
man/man5/
man/man5/freetds.conf.5
share/
[snip - a lot of doc files]

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If I was stuck with that Visual Studio build of freetds then, assuming that the .lib files you've specified are the only ones that exist, I would firstly create a D:\freetds-0.82\lib directory and move all of the .lib files to it. Then try renaming them to libct.lib and libsybct.lib - it would be a trial and error approach (unless you want to take a look inside those libraries and see what symbols they define).

Presumably, at some stage, the dll will need to be in a location that's in your path.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re: DBD::Sybase on windows server 2003 by syphilis
in thread DBD::Sybase on windows server 2003 by jlpears

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