From: Martin J. Evans
Date: April 14 2011 4:53pm
Subject: Re: Linking on LINUX with ODBC drivers - missing libodbcinst.so.1
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On 14/04/11 17:35, mike.rawlins@stripped wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an ODBC application on LINUX that needs to access databases on o=
ther machines using ODBC. I=92ve downloaded the myodbc driver tarball for=
 LINUX. I have a demo program that works with other drivers, but when I t=
ry to link to just the MYSql ODBC drivers I get the following:
>
> make
>
> g++ -g -m32 -o demoodbc -I../include demoodbc.c -L../lib -lmyodbc5 -lc
>
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: libodbcinst.so.1, needed by ../lib/libmyodbc5.so,=
 not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
>
> ../lib/libmyodbc5.so: undefined reference to `SQLSetConfigMode'
>
> ../lib/libmyodbc5.so: undefined reference to `SQLValidDSN'
>
> ../lib/libmyodbc5.so: undefined reference to `SQLInstallDriverEx'
>
> ../lib/libmyodbc5.so: undefined reference to `SQLGetPrivateProfileStrin=
g'
>
> ../lib/libmyodbc5.so: undefined reference to `SQLRemoveDSNFromIni'
>
> ../lib/libmyodbc5.so: undefined reference to `SQLPostInstallerError'
>
> ../lib/libmyodbc5.so: undefined reference to `SQLGetConfigMode'
>
> ../lib/libmyodbc5.so: undefined reference to `SQLWritePrivateProfileStr=
ing'
>
> ../lib/libmyodbc5.so: undefined reference to `SQLRemoveDriver'
>
> ../lib/libmyodbc5.so: undefined reference to `SQLWriteDSNToIni'
>
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> make: *** [demoodbc] Error 1
>
> This shared library file was not in the distribution. Any idea where I =
can get it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
> Mike Rawlins
> Sr. Software Engineer
> Chair, ASC X12 Technical Assessment Subcommittee
>
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>
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>
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>

You need to install the unixODBC driver manager. Depending on your linux =
distribution you might be able to install it as a package in which case l=
ook for unixodbc-bin or something like that. It will supply libodbc.so an=
d libodbcinst.so.

Martin
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Martin J. Evans
Easysoft Limited
http://www.easysoft.com