Can't load 'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/DBD/Sybase/Sybase.dll' for module DB
+D::Sybase:
 load_file:A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed 
+at /<C:\Pr
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bdimp.c(5637) : warning C4996: 'strncpy' was declared deprecated
        C:\msvs8\VC\INCLUDE\string.h(156) : see declaration of 'strncp
+y'
        Message: 'This function or variable may be unsafe. Consider us
+ing strncp
y_s instead. To disable deprecation, use _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE. See
+ online he
lp for details.'
Running Mkbootstrap for DBD::Sybase ()
        C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod 644 Sybase.b
+s
        C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Mksymlists  -e "Mksymlists('N
+AME'=>\"DB
D::Sybase\", 'DLBASE' => 'Sybase', 'DL_FUNCS' => {  }, 'FUNCLIST' => [
+], 'IMPORT
S' => {  }, 'DL_VARS' => []);"
        link -out:blib\arch\auto\DBD\Sybase\Sybase.dll -LC:\sybase70/O
+CS-15_0/li
b -dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf  -libpath:"C:\Perl\li
+b\CORE"  -
machine:x86 Sybase.obj  dbdimp.obj   C:\Perl\lib\CORE\perl58.lib C:\sy
+base70\OCS
-15_0\lib\libsybct.lib C:\sybase70\OCS-15_0\lib\libsybcs.lib C:\sybase
+70\OCS-15_
0\lib\libsybblk.lib C:\msvs8\VC\LIB\oldnames.lib C:\msvs8\VC\LIB\kerne
+l32.lib C:
\mssdk\Lib\user32.lib C:\mssdk\Lib\gdi32.lib C:\mssdk\Lib\winspool.lib
+ C:\mssdk\
Lib\comdlg32.lib C:\mssdk\Lib\advapi32.lib C:\mssdk\Lib\shell32.lib C:
+\mssdk\Lib
\ole32.lib C:\mssdk\Lib\oleaut32.lib C:\mssdk\Lib\netapi32.lib C:\mssd
+k\Lib\uuid
.lib C:\mssdk\Lib\ws2_32.lib C:\mssdk\Lib\mpr.lib C:\mssdk\Lib\winmm.l
+ib C:\mssd
k\Lib\version.lib C:\mssdk\Lib\odbc32.lib C:\mssdk\Lib\odbccp32.lib C:
+\msvs8\VC\
LIB\msvcrt.lib -def:Sybase.def
LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/LC:\sybase70/OCS-15_0/li
+b'; ignore
d
   Creating library blib\arch\auto\DBD\Sybase\Sybase.lib and object bl
+ib\arch\auto\DBD\Sybase\Sybase.exp
        C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod 755 blib\arc
+h\auto\DBD\Sybase\Sybase.dll
        C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e cp Sybase.bs blib\
+arch\auto\DBD\Sybase\Sybase.bs
        C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod 644 blib\arc
+h\auto\DBD\Sybase\Sybase.bs
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LDDLFLAGS = -LC:\sybase70/OCS-15_0/lib -dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -deb
+ug -opt:ref,icf  -libpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86
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Unfortunately I don't know much about Windows, and even less about the way MSVC works (specifying libraries, etc).

Stupid question time.... is the SYBASE env. variable set correctly when you try to run your test ?

Michael

I know zip about MSVC, unfortunately. But that was the tips I found for compiling this on Windows. Yes, SYBASE is set along with

SYBASE=C:\sybase70
SYBASE_JRE=C:\sybase70\Shared\Sun\jre142
SYBASE_OCS=OCS-15_0
SYBASE_UA=C:\sybase70\ua
INCLUDE=C:\sybase70\OCS-15_0\include
LIB=C:\sybase70\OCS-15_0\lib
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Edit: g0n - code tags

Hi,


It took me some seven days to compile and successfully link DBI::Sybase1.08 against Sybase OCS15 on Mingw / Windows Vista. I would surely share my trick, it is really difficult to link sybase libraries using Mingw. If I link on VC8, it is linked to msvcr80.dll. It fails to load because of windows side by side dll installation.

So I tried to link using free Mingw, it links with msvcrt.dll. Downloaded mingw, binutils, unix utils (unixutils.sourceforge.net) and nmake from VC8\bin.


I followed the articles at:
http://mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-msvcdll
http://sapdb.2scale.net/maxdb-wiki/MS_C++_Toolkit
http://www.geocities.com/yongweiwu/stdcall.htm

And created my own libraries out of %sybase%\dll\*

Step1: Create the following sed file, call it exp.sed

/ \t*ordinal hint/,/^ \t*Summary/{
/^ \t\+0-9\+/{
s/^ \t\+0-9\+ \t\+0-9A-Fa-f\+ \t\+0-9A-Fa-f\+ \t\+\(.*\)/\1/p
}
}


Step2: Create following batch file, call it genlib.bat
echo LIBRARY %1.dll > %1.def
echo EXPORTS >> %1.def
link -dump -exports %1.dll | sed -nf c:\temp\DBD-Sybase-1.08\exports.sed >> %1.def
dlltool -U -d %1.def -l %1.a


Step3: go to %sybase%\dll and run the following loop (type it on dos prompt and press enter)

for /f %i in ('dir /b *.dll') do a %~ni & move /Y %~ni.a ..\lib\ & del %~ni.def
Step4:
Go to DBD-Sybase-1.08 directory, edit makefile.pl, change libct to libsybct.a etc .. and run nmake it compiles and links correctly, but all the tests fail!!!

--------------------------------------------------------
ERROR:
# Tried to use 'DBD::Sybase'.
# Error: Can't load 'C:\temp\DBD-Sybase-1.08\blib\arch/auto/DBD/Sybase/Sybase.dll' for module DBD::Sybase: load_file:The specified procedure could not be found at C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 201.
--------------------------------------------------------

So I tried again to debug:
Went to "DBD-Sybase-1.08\blib\arch\auto\DBD\Sybase"
and issued "link -dump -exports Sybase.dll"

The following dump clearly shows there aren't any methods exported. It seems the __declspec(export) is not evaluated by some preprocessor macro during compilation.




Dump of file Sybase.dll

File Type: DLL

  Section contains the following exports for dll.exp.dll

    00000000 characteristics
    47FAA9E4 time date stamp Tue Apr 08 00:10:28 2008
        0.00 version
           1 ordinal base
           2 number of functions
           2 number of names

    ordinal hint RVA      name

          2    0 00006130 _boot_DBD__Sybase
          1    1 00006130 boot_DBD__Sybase

  Summary

        1000 .bss
        1000 .data
        1000 .edata
        2000 .idata
        5000 .rdata
        1000 .reloc
       16000 .text
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Michael could you please help me, here?


Thanks,
Sanjit