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Compiling FreeTDS on Windows

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This is how I got FreeTDS to compile on Windows 7 Professional with Visual Studio 2008.

1. Install Visual Studio 2008 (a.k.a.: Visual Studio 9.0)
2. Download the FreeTDS 0.91 source tarball and extract it somewhere. I chose C:\Users\marca\src\freetds-0.91.
3. Open a Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt.
4. Change to the directory with FreeTDS:

cd C:\Users\marca\src\freetds-0.91

(or whatever you chose)
5. Give this a shot — it will fail probably:

nmake -fNmakefile -nologo apps PLATFORM=win32 CONFIGURATION=debug

6. You will get a bunch of errors that look like this:

c:\users\marca\src\freetds-0.91\include\tds_sysdep_private.h(239) :
fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'inttypes.h':
No such file or directory

7. Fix the inttypes.h error — edit win32/config.h and comment out this line (line 92 for me):

#define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1

8. If you repeat the above nmake command, then you’ll get a new error:

c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 9.0\vc\include\stdio.h
(358) : error C3163: '_vsnprintf': attributes inconsistent 
with previous declaration
        c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 9.0\vc\
        include\stdio.h(350) : see declaration of '_vsnprintf'

9. Fix the _vsnprintf error by editing include/tds_sysdep_private.h and commenting out the second instance of this line (line 96 for me):

#define vsnprintf _vsnprintf

10. Repeat the nmake command and this time it should succeed and you will end up with a tsql.exe file.

C:\Users\marca\src\freetds-0.91>nmake ^
More? -fNmakefile -nologo apps ^
More? PLATFORM=win32 CONFIGURATION=debug
...
C:\Users\marca\src\freetds-0.91>dir src\apps\win32\debug\tsql.exe
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is D0C5-FA7C

 Directory of C:\Users\marca\src\freetds-0.91\src\apps\win32\debug

07/18/2013  04:19 PM           847,872 tsql.exe
               1 File(s)        847,872 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  19,728,400,384 bytes free

11. Give it a spin:

C:\Users\marca\src\freetds-0.91>src\apps\win32\debug\tsql ^
More? -H <server> -p 1433 ^
More? -U <username> -P <password> -D <database>
...
1> SELECT @@version
2> GO

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP2) - 10.50.4279.0 (X64)
        Mar 26 2013 17:33:13
        Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
        Developer Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1  
       (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (Hypervisor)

(1 row affected)

A few useful links:

OS X Homebrew: Build FreeTDS from HEAD (gitorious)

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Here’s a pull request I just submitted to homebrew to make it possible to build FreeTDS from master on its gitorious repo:

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/21309

Example of using it:

$ brew install freetds --HEAD --universal
==> Cloning https://git.gitorious.org/freetds/freetds.git
Updating /Library/Caches/Homebrew/freetds--git
==> autoreconf -i
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/freetds/HEAD --with-openssl=/usr/bin --with-tdsver=7.1 --mandir=/usr/local/Cellar/freetds/HEAD/share/man
==> make
==> make install
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/freetds/HEAD: 63 files, 3.6M, built in 67 seconds

$ brew test freetds --HEAD -v
Testing freetds
==> /usr/local/Cellar/freetds/HEAD/bin/tsql -C
/usr/local/Cellar/freetds/HEAD/bin/tsql -C
Compile-time settings (established with the "configure" script)
                            Version: freetds v0.92.dev.20130718
             freetds.conf directory: /usr/local/Cellar/freetds/HEAD/etc
     MS db-lib source compatibility: no
        Sybase binary compatibility: no
                      Thread safety: yes
                      iconv library: yes
                        TDS version: 7.1
                              iODBC: yes
                           unixodbc: no
              SSPI "trusted" logins: no
                           Kerberos: no

Pretty simple:

commit 3d786f23bc2ff5d73a22474f9256330a17f01e23
Author: Marc Abramowitz 
Date:   Thu Jul 18 09:10:33 2013 -0700

    freetds.rb: Enable support for building FreeTDS from HEAD (gitorious)

diff --git a/Library/Formula/freetds.rb b/Library/Formula/freetds.rb
index 0a700e6..362b411 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/freetds.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/freetds.rb
@@ -5,10 +5,19 @@ class Freetds < Formula
   url 'http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/freetds/stable/freetds-0.91.tar.gz'
   sha1 '3ab06c8e208e82197dc25d09ae353d9f3be7db52'

+  head 'https://git.gitorious.org/freetds/freetds.git'
+
   depends_on "pkg-config" => :build
   depends_on "unixodbc" => :optional

+  if build.head?
+    depends_on :automake
+    depends_on :libtool
+  end
+
   def install
+    system "autoreconf -i" if build.head?
+
     args = %W[--prefix=#{prefix}
               --with-openssl=/usr/bin
               --with-tdsver=7.1

Here’s the commit on GitHub.

I also added support for a test and for doing a universal build.

Compiling a universal library

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A note for my future self on how to compile a library as universal binary in Mac OS X.

For a while, I’ve been getting warnings like these when building pymssql:

ld: warning: ignoring file /usr/local/lib/libsybdb.dylib, 
file was built for unsupported file format 
( 0xcf 0xfa 0xed 0xfe 0x 7 0x 0 0x 0 0x 1 0x 3 0x 0 0x 0 0x 0 0x 6 0x 0 0x 0 0x 0 ) 
which is not the architecture being linked (i386): 
/usr/local/lib/libsybdb.dylib
ld: warning: ignoring file /usr/local/lib/libct.dylib, 
file was built for unsupported file format 
( 0xcf 0xfa 0xed 0xfe 0x 7 0x 0 0x 0 0x 1 0x 3 0x 0 0x 0 0x 0 0x 6 0x 0 0x 0 0x 0 ) 
which is not the architecture being linked (i386): 
/usr/local/lib/libct.dylib

I finally decided to do something about them. I rebuilt FreeTDS from source as follows:

./configure \
    CFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" \
    CXXFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" \
    LDFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" \
    --disable-dependency-tracking
make
make install

Goodbye warnings!

This Stack Overflow post was helpful: Stack Overflow: How to compile universal libraries on Mac OS X?