Thread: Problems compiling odbc

I'm trying to install psqlodbc-08.00.0102 on my RedHat AS 4.0 box.  However, when I try to run the configure script it abends.  Please help diagnose this problem so I can get the newer odbc driver in install.

[root@editstdb1 psqlodbc-08.00.0102]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for SQLGetPrivateProfileString in -lodbcinst... no
checking for SQLGetPrivateProfileString in -liodbcinst... no
configure: error: no suitable ODBC driver manager found

Chris Hoover wrote:
> checking for SQLGetPrivateProfileString in -lodbcinst... no
> checking for SQLGetPrivateProfileString in -liodbcinst... no
> configure: error: no suitable ODBC driver manager found

You need to install the development package for the driver manager.  The
package might be called unixodbc-devel or iodbc-devel or similar.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Chris Hoover wrote:
>> checking for SQLGetPrivateProfileString in -lodbcinst... no
>> checking for SQLGetPrivateProfileString in -liodbcinst... no
>> configure: error: no suitable ODBC driver manager found

> You need to install the development package for the driver manager.  The
> package might be called unixodbc-devel or iodbc-devel or similar.

You may also need an explicit --with-unixodbc on the configure line;
leastwise that's what Red Hat's RPM does.

            regards, tom lane

Thanks,

Installing the development package for the unixODBC fixed the problem.

chris