[Lazarus] @Mattias: dblib was Reminder: lovely new components for palette read for commit

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:36:31 +0200
Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 31-3-2012 11:17, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > AFAIK there is no example yet for this stuff, so it would be helpful.
> > Only x-platform examples are put into Lazarus sources.
> > 
> > Do you have a x-platform example?
> 
> It is x-platform.
> 
> The underlying fpc mssqlconn connector just requires FreeTDS (i.e.
> dblib.dll on Windows, presumably dblib.so on Linux etc).
> Just like Firebird requires fbclient.dll/fbembed.dll on Windows and
> equivalent libs on other platforms..
> 
> Haven't tested the GUI components myself on Linux, but Ludo Brands has.
> Underlying FPC connectors were tested at least on Linux+Windows.

Great.
Then the example can be added without the dll and icons. Can you write
a small README.txt with some hints about the dblib and where to get the
dll?

Mattias