On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Dann Corbit <DCorbit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When you install an ODBC driver, it does not install a library. It installs a DLL or shared object.If you have already installed the driver, then set up your data source with a data source manager.
IODBC is a popular driver manager:
http://www.iodbc.org/dataspace/iodbc/wiki/iODBC/
and UNIXODBC is another popular choice for an ODBC driver manager:
You link your application against the ODBC library for your platform. Then it works with any data source you have configured using your driver manager.
Here is a little blurb about driver managers:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-odbc/en/connector-odbc-driver-manager.html
Here is an outline of using ODBC with IODBC:
http://www.iodbc.org/dataspace/iodbc/wiki/iODBC/ODBCOnUnix
Here are the UNIXODBC manuals:
The link http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload#windows which you had earlier provided was postgres installation. It installed libpq but odbc library was not installed. I hope am looking at correct things.
