https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54499
--- Comment #2 from Alistair Leslie-Hughes leslie_alistair@hotmail.com --- (In reply to Hans Leidekker from comment #1)
(In reply to Alistair Leslie-Hughes from comment #0)
Wine is unable to user native ODBC drivers which have been installed. PostgreSQL and MySQL are two of the comment ones.
I guess you mean the Windows versions of the ODBC drivers. IIRC you can use them if you install native MDAC and add a couple of overrides.
MDAC only supports 32bit and is a standard component I install for ODBC support but since moving to 64bits it's not longer a viable option.
Wouldn't we loose integration with host configuration of the drivers? Do all relevant databases currently supported through unixODBC have a Windows driver?
Yes we would loose integration to the host configuration.
To my knowledge most database vendors who support windows would have a ODBC driver. From experience all the database I've used, both free and commercial have a windows driver of some sort.
Currently the only way is to install the unixODBC driver, you require which isn't always free.
Can you elaborate on this? When isn't it free?
The "Microsoft SQL Server" driver isn't free to use with unixODBC for example.
Most Database drivers for windows are free to use, its the database server that usually cost.