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</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="odbc">
<title>Using ODBC</title>
<para>
This section describes how ODBC works within Wine and how to configure
it to do what you want (if it can do what you want).
</para>
<para>
The ODBC system within wine, as with the printing system, is designed
to hook across to the Unix system at a high level. Rather than
ensuring that all the windows code works under wine it uses a suitable
Unix ODBC provider, such as UnixODBC. Thus if you configure Wine to
use the builtin odbc32.dll that wine dll will interface to your
Unix ODBC package and let that do the work, whereas if you configure
Wine to use the native odbc32.dll it will try to use the native
ODBC32 drivers etc.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Using a Unix ODBC system with Wine</title>
<para>
The first step in using a Unix ODBC system with Wine is, of course,
to get the Unix ODBC system working itself. This may involve
downloading code or rpms etc. There are several Unix ODBC systems
available; the one the author is used to is unixODBC (with the
IBM DB2 driver). Typically such systems will include a tool, such
as isql, which will allow you to access the data from the command
line so that you can check that the system is working.
</para>
<para>
The next step is to hook the Unix ODBC library to the wine builtin
odbc32 dll. The builtin odbc32 (currently) looks to the
environmental variable <emphasis>LIB_ODBC_DRIVER_MANAGER</emphasis>
for the name of the odbc library. For example in the author's
.bashrc file is the line:
</para>
<programlisting>
export LIB_ODBC_DRIVER_MANAGER=/usr/lib/libodbc.so.1.0.0
</programlisting>
<para>
If that environmental variable is not set then it looks for a
library called libodbc.so and so you can add a symbolic link to
equate that to your own library. For example as root you could
run the commands:
</para>
<programlisting>
ln -s libodbc.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libodbc.so
/sbin/ldconfig
</programlisting>
<para>
The last step in configuring this is to ensure that Wine is set up
to run the builtin version of odbc32.dll, by modifying the DLL
configuration. This builtin dll merely acts as a stub between the
calling code and the Unix ODBC library.
</para>
<para>
If you have any problems then you can use the debugmsg channel
odbc32 to trace what is happening. One word of warning. Some
programs actually cheat a little and bypass the odbc library. For
example the Crystal Reports engine goes to the registry to check on
the DSN. The fix for this is documented at unixODBC's site where
there is a section on using unixODBC with Wine.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Using Windows ODBC drivers</title>
<para>
Does anyone actually have any experience of this and anything to
add?
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
</chapter>
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