Details Ticket 4853


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Serial Number 4853
Subject Add iODBC as alternative to UnixODBC
Area wish6
Queue grass
Requestors ferret_bard@mac.com,kyngchaos@kyngchaos.com
Owner gclements
Status open
Last User Contact Fri Jul 21 13:47:26 2006 (2 yr ago)
Current Priority 30
Final Priority 70
Due No date assigned
Last Action Fri Jul 21 13:47:26 2006 (2 yr ago)
Created Sun Sep 18 22:40:58 2005 (3 yr ago)

Transaction History Ticket 4853


Sun, Sep 18 2005 22:40:58    Request created by guest (as #3652)  
Subject: Using Filemaker 7/8 as a GRASS database

Platform: Mac OSX
grass obtained from: Trento Italy site
grass binary for platform: Downloaded precompiled Binaries
GRASS Version: 6.1CVS

a simple, one or two step module that will allow us to use Filemaker Databases
would be really nice.  Something that will link to iODBC or perhaps directly
to the .fp7 or .fp8 file.  A lot of MAC users use filemaker for their database
needs, as it is powerful and easy to use.

The major problem has been the GRASS uses unixODBC while Filemaker uses iODBC.
Translating a file maker file into something readable has been difficult.
Sat, Jul 15 2006 19:32:57    Request created by guest  
Subject: Add iODBC as alternative to UnixODBC

Platform: Mac OSX
grass obtained from: Trento Italy site
grass binary for platform: Compiled from Sources
GRASS Version: 6.1beta1

iODBC is included in the Mac OS X system and there are many ready-made iodbc
drivers (including MS 
Access) for Mac OS X.  I've successfully built, and tested a little, iODBC support
in GRASS by simply 
substituting -liodbc for -lodbc in configure.
Sun, Jul 16 2006 16:30:02    Mail sent by mneteler  
Hi,

it should not be so hard to implement that but
odbc and iodbc might be mutually exclusive.


grep odbc configure.in
LOC_ARG_WITH(odbc, ODBC, no)
LOC_ARG_WITH_INC(odbc, ODBC)
LOC_ARG_WITH_LIB(odbc, ODBC)
LOC_CHECK_USE(odbc,ODBC,USE_ODBC)
LOC_CHECK_INC_PATH(odbc,ODBC,ODBCINC)
LOC_CHECK_LIB_PATH(odbc,ODBC,ODBCLIB)
LOC_CHECK_LIBS(odbc,SQLConnect,ODBC,$ODBCLIB,ODBCLIB,$ICONVLIB,,)

No idea to make that optional for odbc and iodbc.

Markus
Fri, Jul 21 2006 13:47:26    Owner changed to gclements by mneteler  
Fri, Jul 21 2006 13:47:26    Mail sent by mneteler  
Maybe Glynn can help with the configure.in change request?

thanks
Markus
Sat, Jul 22 2006 13:07:19    Request 3652 merged into 4853 by mneteler (as #3652)  
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