[plug] connecting to windoze databases from linux
Peter Wright
pete at akira.apana.org.au
Sat Aug 25 15:53:21 WST 2001
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:33:35PM +0800, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> Simon Scott wrote:
[ snip ]
> > I dont know of any ODBC *clients* for linux however.
>
> They exist. http://www.jepstone.net/FreeODBC/.
And also iODBC - http://www.iodbc.org/
iODBC is the ODBC library used by wxWindows (a cross-platform (UNIX,
Windows, MacOS) C++ development library, primarily although not solely
intended for GUI development) on UNIX.
What is wxWindows?
wxWindows gives you a single, easy-to-use API for writing GUI
applications on multiple platforms. Link with the appropriate library for
your platform (Windows/Unix/Mac) and compiler (almost any popular C++
compiler), and your application will adopt the look and feel appropriate
to that platform. On top of great GUI functionality, wxWindows gives you:
online help, network programming, streams, clipboard and drag and drop,
multithreading, image loading and saving in a variety of popular formats,
database support, HTML viewing and printing, and much much more.
-- extract from http://www.wxwindows.org/
I think iODBC includes a few clients - at least a command-line client - for
accessing ODBC database servers as well, but unfortunately the site seems
to be down at the moment so I can't verify this. D'oh.
Pete.
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