Thread: build WIN32 ODBC using VC++, not Cygwin/gcc
To build the PostgreSQL ODBC driver from CVS (or a recent snapshot/beta, I presume): the following steps worked for me: + Make sure that the psqlodbc.def file in interfaces/odbc is exactly as distributed or obtained from CVS, not the result of some prior build. + Run 'configure' _without_ '--with-odbc' to build PostgreSQL. + Follow the steps in interfaces/odbc/readme.txt to build the ODBC DLL using MS Visual C++. Building with '--with-odbc' will appear to work, but the resulting DLL (created by Cygwin gcc/tools) completely fails to work for me once installed. (It would have been nice if the documentation gave a hint about this. Or did I miss it? The presense of the readme.txt file does not suffice to make it clear that VC++ is the _only_ correct way to build the module for WIN32.) I also got confused when first building the DLL from VC++, because my prior efforts using '--with-odbc' left behind a psqlodbc.def file that is incorrect. My thanks to Hiroshi Inoue for helping me get past this. -- Fred Yankowski fred@OntoSys.com tel: +1.630.879.1312 Principal Consultant www.OntoSys.com fax: +1.630.879.1370 OntoSys, Inc 38W242 Deerpath Rd, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:06:28PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > + Run 'configure' _without_ '--with-odbc' to build PostgreSQL.
>
> I doubt you need that, since you don't use the makefiles.
I stated that point for the benefit of those, like me, who are
building all of PG from source, not just building ODBC. Using
'--with-odbc' in such a case has two problems: 1) it builds a useless
psqlodbc.dll; 2) it updates (AFAICT) psqlodbc.def to new data that
will cause a later, independent, build of psqlodbc.dll via VC++ to
fail.
> > Building with '--with-odbc' will appear to work, but the resulting DLL
> > (created by Cygwin gcc/tools) completely fails to work for me once
> > installed. (It would have been nice if the documentation gave a hint
> > about this. Or did I miss it?
>
> Something more detailed thatn "completely fails to work" might shed some
> light onto it.
I had posted earlier messages with more details (which got no response
other than from Mr. Hiroshi Inoue, who got me past the problem) so I
didn't repeat them in that message. Anyway, here's what happens when
I build psqlodbc.dll as part of a complete pgsql build, having
configured with '--with-odbc':
+ The psqlodbc.dll file appears to build OK, with no warnings (that I
recall).
+ When I overwrite my systemroot/system32/psqlodbc.dll with the one I
just built, I then can no longer access any ODBC functions for
PostgreSQL. In particular:
+ The 'PostgreSQL' driver does appear in the list of drivers in the
ODBC control panel. However, its version & company information
is not available.
+ When I select an existing System DSN using the PostgreSQL driver
and click Configure, I get the message "The setup routines for
the PostgreSQL ODBC driver could not be accessed. Please
reinstall the driver."
+ When I try to Add a new DSN using the PostgreSQL DSN, the same
message results.
+ When I try to bring up my Zope website, which employs several
ODBC connections (and is my only application using PG ODBC),
accessing that site results in an application error from
Zope/python saying "The instruction at '0x64eca3e5' referenced
memory at '0x014f3e54'. The memory could not be 'read'.".
Bringing up the VC++ debugger at that point gives me the message
"Unhandled exception in python.exe (PSQLODBC.DLL): 0xC0000005:
Access Violation".
--
Fred Yankowski fred@OntoSys.com tel: +1.630.879.1312
Principal Consultant www.OntoSys.com fax: +1.630.879.1370
OntoSys, Inc 38W242 Deerpath Rd, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
Fred Yankowski writes: > To build the PostgreSQL ODBC driver from CVS (or a recent > snapshot/beta, I presume): the following steps worked for me: [snip] > + Run 'configure' _without_ '--with-odbc' to build PostgreSQL. I doubt you need that, since you don't use the makefiles. [snip] > Building with '--with-odbc' will appear to work, but the resulting DLL > (created by Cygwin gcc/tools) completely fails to work for me once > installed. (It would have been nice if the documentation gave a hint > about this. Or did I miss it? Something more detailed thatn "completely fails to work" might shed some light onto it. > The presense of the readme.txt file does not suffice to make it clear > that VC++ is the _only_ correct way to build the module for WIN32.) True, it is not a very prominent place to hide such a thing. Maybe it would be appropriate to mention it in the "Installation on Windows" chapter in the Administrator's Guide or alternatively in the ODBC chapter in the Programmer's Guide. Can somebody explain to me what this means, from said readme.txt: "In order to use row versioning, you must overload the int4eq function for use with the xid type." -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/