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Distribution Format

unixODBC is currently availible in a gzip, tar format. This means that you should;

1. copy the unixODBC*.tar.gz file somewhere you can create files and directories
2. gunzip unixODBC*.tar.gz
3. tar xvf unixODBC*.tar

Doing so will create a unixODBC directory with all source files inside.

RPM's

if you want some RPMS have a look at the sourceforge project page.

Andre Felipe Machado has also made up some RPM's for use with the version 7.0 and 8.0 version of Connectiva Linux. These can be found here

I have also built a QNX install which is here

FreeBSD Ports's

Nick Sayer has created a FreeBSD port of unixODBC. Have a look at the FreeBSD Ports site and search for unixODBC

Solaris 9 PKG of 2.2.12

Martin Bellenberg has sent a new Solaris 9 package of 2.2.12.

Solaris 8 PKG of 2.1.1

Palle Haastrup has sent a Solaris 8 package.

CVS Access

Public CVS access is also availible for those that want the very latest sources (bleeding edge). As a experiment we (Peter,Nick) have moved the CVS to SourceForge, to see if the extra toys there are of use

So you may want to use these commands, When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@unixodbc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/unixodbc login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@unixodbc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/unixodbc co unixODBC

Developers of unixODBC work from this CVS so the state of the sources in there will vary.

To build from the CVS archive, run the following command

make -f Makefile.cvs

This will build the configure script.

To build from CVS, you need some current tools, these are what we recommend:

  • automake 1.5
  • libtool 1.4.2
These can be found from the GNU web site or its many mirrors.

Make the Libraries and Programs

The install now uses the standard GNU autoconf process. So its simply a matter of running

./configure
make
make install

By default the files are installed into /usr/local. As is usual with configure, this location can be changed by altering the prefix option to configure. i.e.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/unixODBC

This will install the lib, bin, include and etc directories in /usr/local/unixODBC/lib etc.

To conform with the GNU guidelines the odbcinst file is now installed by default in {prefix}/etc, this can be altered using the --sysconfdir option to configure. To install the files in the old default /etc you would run configure like this

./configure --sysconfdir=/etc

The script will attempt to find the directories that are needed for the GUI components, and if they are not found (i.e. you haven't installed QT) the build will continue without the GUI parts.

Dependencies

The GUI components ( ODBCConfig and DataManager ) require Qt 2.2. 

The SQI library requires flex and yacc to parse the SQL statement.

The entire distribution depends upon having many of the standard development tools installed such as a C/C++ compiler (currently testing is with egcs). Also; the development platform is mostly RedHat Linux 5.1 with compiler upgrades (to be compatible with RedHat 5.2).

Finally

Everyone should take a look at the README and INSTALL files. If you still have problems then it is likely our fault so just send an email and I will see what I can do.