Re: Compiling using Visual Studio 2003

Dave Page wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: pgsql-odbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>[mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Paul Cochrane
>>Sent: 10 February 2005 14:32
>>To: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>Subject: Re: [ODBC] Compiling using Visual Studio 2003
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>>Dave Page wrote:
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>>>>Off topic, FYI, I couldn't get the command line nmake to
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>>>>try putting in extra search paths & stuff but gave up shortly
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>>>>and continued my fight with the IDE.
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>>>That's how I build it all the time. Did you run vcvars32.bat
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>>I'm Thick. What is this file? It doesn't seem come with psqlodbc and
>>there is no mention of it in the doc on the GBORG site about
>>compiling
>>the driver. I was changing to the extracted dir & trying nmake.....
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>It sets up the DOS environment for VC and is part of Visual Studio. On
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>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin (VS.NET 2K3)
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>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin (VS6)
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>Note that if you can it's better to use VC++6 as the required runtimes
>are generally already on most machines.
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Good show. I can now compile using the makefile. Maybe you can add this
info to run vcvar32.bat to the readme.txt file? I did read this file but
knew nothing about running the batch file beforehand (not knowing much
about visual studio).

>>I can fix it in code but this would break the compatibility of using
>>either the paradox tables or postgres tables. I would have to
>>have two
>>different versions of each form etc & record many lines of
>>code to say
>>"If in postgres add a public. to every table name" which is a
>>huge pest
>>& I don't want to have two version of each form to try & keep in sync
>>with each other.
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>You can't abstract it into a macro or function - i.e. in your forms have
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>EXECUTE("SELECT * FROM " + FixName("MyTable"));
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>(bearing in mind I know nothing about Paradox)?
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SQL querying in paradox is straight forward. I can just give it the name
of the table without any schema. It the rest of the interface & data
models which breaks things when schemas are present in the table names.
Querying Postgres is quite simple to get working but the data models are
another story. It's a bloody pest really. Sometimes I wish I knew
nothing about paradox as well!!

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