Re: [Help-glpk] unixODBC

[Andrew Makhorin]

Hi Xypron,

> currently the configure script only allows to use package iODBC to
> connect to databases via ODBC. A common alternative package is unixODBC.
> For using unixODBC no changes in the coding are necessary. Only library
> libodbc.so has to be specified instead of libiodbc.so.

> To install unixODBC on Debian (or Ubuntu) use command
> sudo apt-get install unixodbc

> The development package (with the header files like sql.h) is
> available via:
> sudo apt-get install unixodbc-dev

> Debian Etch and Lenny (and Ubuntu Gutsy) deliver the unixODBC library
> as libodbc.so.1. The following missing symbolic link can be created
> manually:
> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libodbc.so.1 /usr/lib/libodbc.so

> cf.
> http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL.pdf

> I would appreciate if you could provide the name of the ODBC library
> as a parameter in the configure script (e.g. as parameter to
> --enable-odbc).

My suggestion is the following:

--enable-odbc       the same as 'yes'
--enable-odbc=no    disable using odbc (default)
--enable-odbc=yes   use the package iODBC (assumes libiodbc.so)
--enable-odbc=unix  use the package unixODBC (assumes libodbc.so)


Andrew Makhorin