Bug#138225: [RFP]: libodbc3 -- iODBC library (version 3.0.*)
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : libodbc3
Version : 3.0.5
Upstream Author : OpenLink Software Inc (http://www.openlinksw.org)
* URL : http://www.iodbc.org/
* License : Either LGPL or BSD
Description : iODBC library (version 3.0.*)
We do have libodbc2 which Chris takes from the mysql.org site. It never moved
to the 3.0.* release there.
My Perl DBD::ODBC package, i.e. libdbd-odbc-per, now needs v3 rather than v2.
I am a little overcommitted in terms of packages and would prefer it if
someone else packaged this.
Dirk
Original README follow:
#
# README
#
# (C) 1995-2001 OpenLink Software Inc.
#
# The iODBC driver manager.
#
# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
# version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# Library General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
# License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
# Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
iODBC release
Copyright 1995-2001 OpenLink Software and Ke Jin
May be distributed under LGPL or BSD license
1. Introduction
Welcome to the iODBC driver manager maintained by OpenLink Software
(http://www.openlinksw.com) This kit will provide you with everything
you need in order to develop ODBC compliant applications under Unix
without having to pay royalties to other parties.
This kit consists of a number of parts:
o The iODBC driver manager. This is a complete implementation of
an ODBC driver manager, released under either the GNU Library
General Public License or the BSD License. We fully comply with
these licenses by giving you this product in source form (as well
as the binary form). You can download the latest version of the
driver manager from http://www.iodbc.org/
o A simple example, odbctest.c, which gives you a command-line
interface to SQL. You can fit this to your purposes, but at the very
least this is useful for verification of your ODBC installation.
You can use either part stand-alone, if you wish.
An ODBC driver is still needed to affect your connection
architecture. You may build a driver with the iODBC components or
obtain an ODBC driver from a commercial vendor. OpenLink Software
produces cross-platform commercial drivers as well as maintaining
the iODBC distribution. Free, non-expiring copies may be obtained
via download at http://www.openlinksw.com Any ODBC-compliant drivers
will work with the iODBC Driver Manager.
2. Installation of run-time distribution
You probably already unpacked this distribution. The next step is
to make sure that your applications can find all the dynamic link
libraries. Depending on your system's implementation of dynamic link
libraries, you have a number of options:
o Install the libraries in a directory that is searched by your
linker by default. Typical locations are /usr/lib and
/usr/local/lib.
o Install the libraries in some other place, and make sure that the
environment variable your dynamic linker uses to find extra
locations for dynamic link libraries. Most systems use the
environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to this end. Exceptions are
AIX which uses LIBPATH and HP/UX which uses SHLIB_PATH.
If your system has a C compiler, you can verify the installation
by compiling the odbctest program. Otherwise, you may have ODBC
applications installed on your system which you can use.
3. Configuration of run-time distribution
The iODBC driver manager looks for a file ~/.odbc.ini, where the
tilde stands for the user's home directory. This file only contains a
default section where you can select which driver library to use. Copy
the odbc.ini file from the examples directory to ~/.odbc.ini and make
sure the right path and filename is used for your installation.
A data source is a section (enclosed in square parenthesis), and
the attributes for a data source are given within this section.
The most important attribute to iODBC for each datasource is the Driver
attribute. This must point to the shared library for the ODBC driver
associated with the data source.
As example, the OpenLink ODBC drivers have a number of attributes
which can be set for a data source. Here is a description (with ODBC
connect string tags between parenthesis):
Host
The hostname where the database resides (HOST).
ServerType
The type of server (see oplrqb.ini on the server, SVT).
ServerOptions
Server-specific extra options. See OpenLink server documentation
for agents which can use this.
Database
The database to use (DATABASE).
Options
Connect options for the database (OPTIONS).
UserName
The name of the user (a password cannot be specified in the
UDBCINI file, UID/PWD).
ReadOnly
A Yes/No value in order to make the connection read-only
(READONLY=Y/N).
FetchBufferSize
The number of records that are transferred in a single call to
the server. Default is 5; maximum is 99, minimum is 1
(FBS=value).
Protocol
The protocol to use. Leave set to ``TCP'' for this release.
Apart from these data source-specific settings, you may add a section
called [Communications], which you may use to tune our driver further:
ReceiveTimeout
The time the client application will wait for the database agent
to finish the request (default is 60 seconds).
BrokerTimeout
The time the client application will wait for the request broker
to accept of reject a database connection (default is 30
seconds).
SendSize
RPC send buffer size. A value of 0 (the default) will cause the
application to use system-dependent defaults.
ReceiveSize
RPC receive buffer size. A value of 0 (the default) will cause
the application to use system-dependent defaults.
DebugFile
If set, the name of a file to which debugging output from the
driver should be directed.
4. Contribution of changes, patches and updates.
While not mandated by the BSD license, any patches you make to
the iODBC may be contributed back into the iODBC project at
your discretion. Contributions will benefit the Open Source and
Data Access community as a whole. Submissions may be made at
http://www.iodbc.org.
5. iODBC driver manager platform availability
iODBC driver manager has been ported to following Unix platforms:
SunOS 4.1.x Sun Sparc
HP/UX 9.x, 10.x HP9000 s700/s800
HP/UX 9.x HP9000 s300/s400
IBM AIX 3.x, 4.x IBM RS6000, PowerPC
Sun Solaris 2.x Sun Sparc, PCx86
SGI Irix SVR4 5.x, 6.x IP12 MIPS, IP22 MIPS
NCR SVR4 3.x NCR 3435
UnixWare SVR4.2 1.x, 2.x x86
DEC Unix(OSF/1) 3.x, 4.x DEC Alpha
FreeBSD 2.x x86
BSDI BSD/OS 2.x ?
Linux ELF 1.2.x, 1.3.x x86
SCO OpenServer 5.x x86
Max/OS SVR4 1.x Concurrent Maxion 9200 MP
DG/UX 5.x Aviion
OpenVMS 6.x DEC Alpha
Windows NT 4.x x86
As the iODBC driver manager uses autoconf/automake/libtool it should
be portable to most modern UNIX platforms out of the box. However if
you do need to make changes to the code or the configuration files,
we would appreciate you share your changes with the rest of the
internet community by mailing your patches to iodbc@openlinksw.com
so we can include them for the next build
Porting of iODBC driver manager to some non-UNIX operating systems
such as Windows family(3.x, 95, NT), OS/2 and Mac is supported but has
not been compiled and tested recently. Of cause, you need to supply
a make/build file and a short LibMain for creating the iodbc.dll.
6. How to build iODBC driver manager:
step 1. Run configure to adjust to target platform
step 2. Run make
step 3. Run make install
Here is an example:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-iodbc-inidir=/etc
...
...
...
$ make
...
...
...
$ su
# make install
...
...
...
The configure program will examine your system for various compiler
flags, system options etc. In some cases extra flags need to be
added for the C compiler to work properly.
E.g. on HP systems you may need:
$ CFLAGS="-Ae -O" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local ..........
Note that the path of the system wide odbc.ini file is calculated as
follows (based on flags to ./configure):
no --prefix default is /usr/local/etc/odbc.ini
--prefix=/usr /etc/odbc.ini
--prefix=/xxx/yyy /xxx/yyy/etc/odbc.ini
--sysconfdir=/xxx/yyy /xxx/yyy/odbc.ini
--with-iodbc-inidir=/xxx/yyy /xxx/yyy/odbc.ini
7. odbc.ini
Driver manager and drivers use odbc.ini file or connection string
when establishing a data source connection. On Windows, odbc.ini is
located in Windows directory.
On UNIX, the iODBC driver manager looks for the odbc.ini file in the
following sequence:
1. check environment variable ODBCINI
2. check $HOME/.odbc.ini
3. check home in /etc/passwd and try .odbc.ini in there
4. system wide odbc.ini (settable at configuration time)
Item 1 is the easiest as most drivers will also look at this variable.
The format of odbc.ini( or ~/.odbc.ini ) is defined as:
odbc.ini ::= data_source_list
data_source_list ::= /* empty */
| data_source '\n' data_source_list
data_source ::= '[' data_source_name ']' '\n' data_source_desc
data_source_name ::= 'default' | [A-Za-z]*[A-Za-z0-9_]*
data_source_desc ::= /* empty */
| attrib_desc '\n' data_source_desc
addrib_desc ::= Attrib '=' attrib_value
Attrib ::= 'Driver' | 'PID' | 'UID' | driver_def_attrib
driver_def_attrib ::= [A-Za-z]*[A-Za-z0-9_]*
An example of an odbc.ini file:
;
; odbc.ini
;
[ODBC Data Sources]
Myodbc = Myodbc
Sample = OpenLink Generic ODBC Driver
Virtuoso = Virtuoso
[Sample]
Driver = /usr/local/openlink/lib/oplodbc.so.1
Description = Sample OpenLink DSN
Host = localhost
UserName = openlink
Password = xxxx
ServerType = Oracle 8
Database =
FetchBufferSize = 99
ReadOnly = no
TraceFile = /tmp/odbc.trace
Trace = 1
[Virtuoso]
Driver = /usr/local/virtuoso/lib/virtodbc.so.1
Address = localhost:1112
Database = Demo
[Myodbc]
Driver = /home/patrick/src/iODBC/new/myodbc/myodbc.so
HOST = localhost
[Default]
Driver = /usr/local/openlink/lib/oplodbc.so.1
8. Tracing
iODBC driver manager traces driver's ODBC call invoked by the driver
manager. Default tracing file is ./odbc.log. Tracing option (i.e.
on/off or optional tracing file name) can be set in odbc.ini file
(under a data source section) as:
TraceFile = <optional_trace_file>
Trace = ON | On | on | 1 | OFF | Off | off | 0
If <optional_trace_file> is stderr or stdout, i.e.
TraceFile = stderr
or
TraceFile = stdout
the tracing message will go to the terminal screen (if it is available).
iODBC driver manager allows one to tune on/off tracing on selected
connection(s). Different connections can share one or use different
tracing file(s). ODBC calls on connections without tuning tracing
on will not be traced.
9. Further Information Sources:
http://www.iodbc.org
iODBC project home page.
Binaries, source, WebCVS, and Discussion Forum.
http://www.openlinksw.com
OpenLink Software.
Free non-expiring trials and support for OpenLink's ODBC drivers.
http://www.microsoft.com/data/odbc/
Microsoft's ODBC pages.
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