From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 14 14:02:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18822 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:02:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from modgud.nordicdms.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA18716 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:02:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walton@nordicdms.com) Received: (qmail 23413 invoked by alias); 14 Sep 1998 21:01:59 -0000 Message-ID: <19980914210159.23411.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com> Received: (qmail 23400 invoked from network); 14 Sep 1998 21:01:58 -0000 Received: from mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (HELO mail-ftp) (207.21.168.100) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 14 Sep 1998 21:01:58 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" Organization: Nordic Entertainment Worldwide To: David Chamberlain , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:01:58 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Apache/PHP3 and databases Reply-to: walton@nordicdms.com In-reply-to: <35FD47BB.CE0A9FFE@ibm.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14 Sep 98, at 9:43, David Chamberlain wrote: > Somebody please, please help me with this if possible. I don't want to have > to deal with Linux. I really wish I had a good answer for you, so I could use it myself. > I have different types of data in Progress, Informix and Microsoft SQL. I believe PHP has support for Progess and Informix, though I've never looked closely. MS-SQL is the tricky one. Currently, the only non-ODBC way to talk to MS-SQL is with Sybase ct-lib drivers. (Search for FreeTDS for an upcoming alternative.) Problem is, ct-lib isn't available for FreeBSD. Sybase did release a Linux ct-lib some years ago, but it's old enough that it doesn't work right on some versions of Linux anymore. In theory, you could compile a Linux binary of PHP and link it with that library, but I haven't tried. > Is there a way to > convert Linux object libraries to link into FreeBSD programs? I'm told that it's possible to set up FreeBSD as a Linux development environment, and directly compile Linux binaries (which can be linked with Linux libraries). However, I haven't a clue how to do this. Good luck! Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message