[Wine] how linux application can connect to wine ODBC DSN

[Martin Gregorie]

On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 04:08 -0500, kenlo wrote:
> An ODBC DSN has been setup successfully on wine.  "wine isql DSN" has
> verified the connection.
> 
> Now a linux application wishes to connect this DSN.  Is it possible?
> 
Of course. If there's a Linux driver you can use that: ask the database
vendor if there's a driver. Otherwise use iODBC < http://www.iodbc.org >
or UnixODBC < http://www.unixodbc.org/ > and look for a driver for your
database driver there. 

> Proxies like ODBCSocketServer or DBTCP would be the last choice
> because there shouldn't be any need for yet another layer.
>
They are not necessary.

Martin