-----Original Message----- From: James Juran [mailto:jamesjuran@alumni.psu.edu] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 3:43 PM To: Robert Damen Cc: 'wine-devel@winehq.com' Subject: Re: Wine ODBC compatibilty
Robert Damen wrote:
Wine, I found this address on your website, if it is the
wrong address for
these types of questions - Sorry!.
I was wondering weather you could answer a question I have
about support for
Microsoft Office applications. The question is about weather wine can emulate (or has its
own version of)
the "ODBC Data Sources (32bit)" application found in c:\windows\Control Panel\ODBC Data Sources This application is used to set up DSN drivers for ODBC
access on Access and
Excel. An example of one of the drivers that this application
handles is the MyODBC
3.51 windows driver.
The "ODBC Data Sources" application in the control panel merely manipulates registry entries. If all you need to do is set them up, you can do that easily with regedit.
If you're wondering if they will work after you set them up, someone else will have to answer that question :-)
-- James Juran jamesjuran@alumni.psu.edu
To the best of my knowledge there is no such application, and it would be strange if there were.
The WINE ODBC32 module is merely a wrapper around any suitable Linux ODBC module. For example we use unixODBC. Thus the WINE ODBC module has no real need to access the registry since all the work is being done by the Linux ODBC module. The way that the Linux ODBC module is configure depends upon which one you use.
The unixODBC module, for example, uses a odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini file to store its configuration information. Although it does have a graphical configuration tool, with plugins for some database drivers, I prefer to edit the files by hand.
That being said, it may be necessary to add some information to the registry for some ODBC-based applications. I do know that Crystal Reports directly accesses the registry for ODBC information rather than asking ODBC itself.
HTH
Bill