#15 Under Cygwin sqsh cannot interpret pathnames

[David Brusowankin]

Under cygwin, sqsh fails on startup because it attempts
to use the backward slash directory delimiter.

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The context allocation routine failed when it tried to
load localization files!!
One or more following problems may caused the failure

Your sybase home directory is /usr/local/sybase. Check
the environment variable SYBASE if it is not the one
you want!
Cannot access file /usr/local/sybase\ini\objectid.dat

The context allocation routine failed when it tried to
load localization files!!
One or more following problems may caused the failure

Your sybase home directory is /usr/local/sybase. Check
the environment variable SYBASE if it is not the one
you want!
Cannot access file /usr/local/sybase\ini\objectid.dat

The context allocation routine failed when it tried to
load localization files!!
One or more following problems may caused the failure

Your sybase home directory is /usr/local/sybase. Check
the environment variable SYBASE if it is not the one
you want!
Cannot access file /usr/local/sybase\ini\objectid.dat

The context allocation routine failed when it tried to
load localization files!!
One or more following problems may caused the failure

Your sybase home directory is /usr/local/sybase. Check
the environment variable SYBASE if it is not the one
you want!
Cannot access file /usr/local/sybase\ini\objectid.dat
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Thx,

David

[Michael Peppler]

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Actually that message comes from the Sybase libs, not from
sqsh itself. I've not used cygwin myself, so I'm not sure
how to proceed, but I will look into this.

[Jeroen van Lit]

I have a working SQSH under Cygwin. It involved the steps below:

1) Install bare Cygwin environment
2) Install ‘readline’ package
3) Insert the wanted SQL servers to C:\SYBASE\SQL.INI using DSEDIT
4) Copy C:\Sybase to C:\SQL10 (Sybase libs in tar below are hardcoded to use this directory - don't ask me why)
5) Untar the SQSH package (found sqsh-cygwin-2.1.4-15.0.2_tar on the web).
6) Have a beer.