Re: [mdb-dev] ODBC driver configuration

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I actually have code for both the setup library (the libmdbodbc will
be the setup library as well as the odbc library) and to use the
odbcinst library to read the odbc.ini file instead of the current
scheme.  This stuff will be going in in the next week or so.

Brian

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 07:12:22 -0800 (PST), Jeff Smith wrote:

> 
> --- Barrie Backhurst <bar...@nt...> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I have just installed mdbtools 0.5, along with unixodbc on
slackware
> 9.1
> > 
> > The tools work fine with a test mdb file, but I am having problems
> configuring 
> > the odbc. I have edited odbc.ini as advised in your post install 
> > instructions, but OpenOffice will not connect. I have tried using
> ODBCConfig, 
> > but there does not appear to be a setup library available and when
I
> try to 
> > configure the DSN, the folowing error is generated:-
> > 
> > 	Could not construct a property list for
> (/usr/local/lib/libmdbodbc.so)
> 
> You are correct, there is a driver, but no setup library.  The
> convention seems
> to be that setup libraries end with a capital S (e.g. libodbcmyS.so,
> libtdsS.so).
> I have not seen anything like that from unixODBC or from mdbtools.
> 
> I have had problems with having it in the system DSN's
> (/etc/odbc.ini), so I
> put the definitions in the user DSN's instead ($HOME/.odbc.ini).  Try
> this if
> you have not already.
> 
> To test, use unixODBC's isql tool.  Run 'isq your_DSN' and try
> executing a
> select statement ('select * from some_table').
>  
> > I guess I am missing something simple here, but I have been over it
> several 
> > times and cannot find the answer.
> > 
> > Barrie
> 
> Hope some of this helps.
> 
>  -- Jeff S
> 
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