[egenix-users] Using mxODBC with unixODBC 2.3.1

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Dear Users,

the unixODBC maintainers have decided to change the library version of
their libodbc.so shared library from 1 to 2.

This change should have been done with the release of unixODBC 2.3.0,
since that changed the unixODBC application interface by switching
from 32-bit to 64-bit length information in the APIs, but late is
better then never :-)

If you are using mxODBC with unixODBC 2.3.1, please read on...

As mentioned on the http://www.unixodbc.org/ users running into problems
with the linker should create a symlink from libodbc.so.2 to libodbc.so.1
in order to work around the problem:

cd /usr/lib
ln -sf libodbc.so.2 libodbc.so.1

Since mxODBC 3.1 is linked against unixODBC 2.3.0, it uses the previous
name libodbc.so.1, so you will have to add the mentioned symlink to
have mxODBC find the unixODBC library in case you intend to use
unixODBC on Unix platforms.

The next release of mxODBC will be linked against unixODBC 2.3.1
(or later) and will start looking for libodbc.so.2 per default.

Thanks,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

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