Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] Firebird_ODBC_2.0.0.148 and ASP on 2003server

[Paul R. <pr...@ib...>]

On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Roman Simakov wrote:
> It seems to me Paul is right but zip for win32 contains the same files
> for x64. diff says that x64 and win32 files have no differences.
>
> We need more fresh snapshot.
>

I've been looking at the build system for the driver recently. It is not 
broken, but it is definitely in a mess.

I brought the makefile for linux builds up-to-date. That works fine and can 
now produce 32-bit and 64-bit libraries. However, each build needs to be 
done separately. There is not a controlling script that generates both 
drivers.

OTOH, the windows builds are a little more complicated. AFAICT, the nmake 
builds are definitely broken - they include makefile.environ which now only 
works with gmake. I'm going to upload a new namefile.win_environ to fix 
this.

But that is not the only problem with the nmake builds. There is also the 
fact that there are several nmake makefiles, all of them in different 
directories. There really should just be the one, along with an intelligent 
batch file to set the appropriate environment. We should also separate the 
nmake builds from the Visual Studio builds. Having build.bat in the same 
directory as a .sln file is confusing as the batch file calls nmake not the 
appropriate version of devenv.

To summarize, we don't have a one-click solution to generate working 
snapshots. They need to be prepared manually. This all goes some way to 
explaining why the most recent snapshots may not be correct. 


Paul
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