Re: use psqlodbc on Windows without Windows driver manager? - Mailing list pgsql-odbc

From Tsunakawa, Takayuki
Subject Re: use psqlodbc on Windows without Windows driver manager?
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Msg-id 0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F54C10F@G01JPEXMBYT05
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In response to use psqlodbc on Windows without Windows driver manager?  ("Dieter Mueller (BOI GmbH)" <dieter.mueller@boi.at>)
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> From: pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Dieter Mueller (BOI
> GmbH)
> is psql-odbc designed to work on Windows without the Windows ODBC driver
> manager?
> 
> (I want to prepare a distribution of our software for testing purposes that
> can be used without any installation on Windows - no ODBC driver installation
> as well)
> 
> I created my own psqlodbc30a.lib of psqlodbc30a.dll by calling MS tools
> "dumpbin /exports ..." and "lib /def:...", then I linked my ODBC application
> with the new psqlodbc30a.lib instead of Microsoft's obdc32.lib and
> odbccp32.lib.

I don't think it's reasonable.  According to the ODBC spec, the Driver Manager does many tasks, including error checks,
andthe ODBC driver depends on it.
 

Why do you want to avoid linking with odbc32.lib?

Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa

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