Building ODBC with MinGW

[mlotfy]

I completely failed to build the POCO library (Data component) with MinGW on windows (XP).
I used the last version of MinGW (4.6.2). Is there any trusted way to do that since I need the (Data component) very much in order to (ODBC) connect to a database?
I build all libraries successfully on Linux, but in window - using MinGw - repeated failure.

[alex]

Use Visual Studio Express.

[mlotfy]

I prefere using MinGW not VC++ compiler, since MinGW supports more C++11 standards - which I need to do all my coming code with it - . Also, MinGW enables me to write code that can be easily compiled in both Windows and Linux.
So, still the question is: did any one do compiling the Poco in windows using the MinGW????

[alex]

There's been some work done recently with Cygwin and MinGW but I'm not familiar with details. Jiang Shan can provide more details, if he is following the thread.

Generally speaking, we do not officially support MinGW. Anyone wanting to step in and volunteer is welcome to do so, we will support the effort.

[SalvorHardin]

You didn't mention which version of Poco you were building. But this might be worth a look:

http://poco.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ ... ision=1834

I use Visual C++ 2010 Pro on Windows, but using MinGW seems attractive since I use gcc 4.6.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Good luck and let us know how it goes!

[pasorobo]

I completely failed to build the POCO library (Data component) with MinGW on windows (XP).
I used the last version of MinGW (4.6.2). Is there any trusted way to do that since I need the (Data component) very much in order to (ODBC) connect to a database?
I build all libraries successfully on Linux, but in window - using MinGw - repeated failure.

First, as SalvorHardin said, please update to rev 1834 for you MingW build. Without this POCO can not be built on you MingW 4.6.2.

And for ODBC build, I just updated the Makefile for branch 1.4.4 (rev 1854), would you please check it ?

If you can not use branch 1.4.4, just change your ODBC Makefile like this patch file:

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@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
SYSLIBS += -L/usr/local/lib/odbc -L/usr/lib/odbc -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib

ifeq ($(POCO_CONFIG),MinGW)
-# Lack of unixODBC or iODBC is not an error for MinGW platform since it uses Windows odbc32.lib
+# -DODBCVER=0x0300: SQLHandle declaration issue
+# -DNOMINMAX      : MIN/MAX macros defined in windows conflict with libstdc++
+CXXFLAGS += -DODBCVER=0x0300 -DNOMINMAX
else
ifeq ($(POCO_CONFIG),CYGWIN)
# -DODBCVER=0x0300: SQLHandle declaration issue


Jiang (a.k.a pasorobo)

[mlotfy]

Thank you so much pasorobo, I did it.