[Lazarus] Accessing MS SQLServer database from Lazarus/FPC?

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:15:21 +0100, Bo Berglund
<bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:59:37 +0100, Bo Berglund
><bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:06:12 +0100 (CET), Michael Van Canneyt
>
>>>Attached is a possible patch. I don't have MS-SQL (doesn't run on Linux) so I can't test.
>>>Please apply it to packages/fcl-db/src/sqldb/sqldb.pp and report whether this helped you 
>>>solve your problem. If so, I will commit it to SVN.
>>>
>>>Michael.
>>
>>How do I apply this file to my lazarus? It appears to deal with the
>>file sqldb.pp so I tried to look in my lazarus installation dir but I
>>could not find this file below my main dir:
>>C:\Programs\lazarus_fix_30 (where I checked out the lazarus sources)
>>
>>All a search found was the file registersqldb.ppu, which of course is
>>not the same as what the patch targeted.
>>
>
>After making a search on my complete disk I found the file sqldb.pp in
>the FPC2.4.2 folder tree.
>That is, it was not found in the lazarus tree at all, is this OK?
>
>After adding the new lines from the patch I want to test it, but I
>don't know how I can make lazarus use the new file....
>Just compiling my example again seems not to work.
>
>What can I do to make it "take"? Do I need to compile FPC (since the
>file is part of the FPC sources) or do I rebuild the lazarus itself?
>Or maybe both?
>
>I have actually no clue in this respect. I always worked in Delphi
>before and there the compiler checked the files and recompiled if
>needed, but with lazarus it seems like you have to do this manually...
>
>

Now I have rebuilt Lazarus with the changed sqldb.pp file in place in
the FPC sources. I used the Lazarus function to build itself.
But the code still rejects the EXEC verb with the same error message
as before.
I have probably not succeeded to make lazarus use the modified
sqldb.pp source file....


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden