[Gdal-dev] iODBC instead of unixODBC?

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Mon Oct 31 00:01:54 EST 2005


On 10/30/05, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> I was able to substitute -liodbc for -lodbc and get OGR to build with
> ODBC and PGeo support.  (Mac OS X comes with iODBC and I'm having
> trouble getting unixODBC to build with GCC 4, so I thought I'd try
> iODBC)  So it *appears* that they are interchangable.  I don't have
> any ODBC drivers to test this with right now, but I can try to get a
> MySQL or Postgre driver installed.
>
> So, should this work?

William,

I my previous very limited experience I found iODBC less
reliable than unixODBC but generally speaking they should
be essentially interchangable.

Best regards,
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