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To: "Adrian Pavlykevych" <pam@polynet.lviv.ua>
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Subject: Re: Q:Using SCO libraries under FreeBSD (COFF convertor?) 
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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> 
> I'm having problem with RDBMS access - all available drivers are for 
> SCO, so do libraries needed by PD drivers.

This isn't even vaguely true.  Which RDBMS are you using?  There's a 
freely-available ODBC client kicking around, which should get you 
talking to just about anything.

> Is there any way to convert SCO libraries into format recofgnizable 
> by FreeBSD linker?

Not trivially, no.

> I've installed GNU binutils and tried to convert library from 
> COFF-i386 to a.out-freebsd. Operation went smothly, but function 
> references remained without leading underscore - so they were not 
> accessible for linker.
> 
> What I'm missing/doing wrong?

If you're hopeful that you're that close, you can try munging the names 
in the ex-SCO library.  Hit it with a binary editor and then use hidden 
#defines in your code to map names, eg.

For a function 'zworp' in the library, rename it to _worp, and then add 
a define in your code:

#define zworp(arg, arg, arg) worp(arg, arg, arg)

mike