Wine ODBC compatibilty

[Medland, Bill]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Juran [mailto:jamesjuran at alumni.psu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 3:43 PM
> To: Robert Damen
> Cc: 'wine-devel at winehq.com'
> Subject: Re: Wine ODBC compatibilty
> 
> 
> Robert Damen wrote:
> > 
> > Wine,
> >         I found this address on your website, if it is the 
> wrong address for
> > these types of questions - Sorry!.
> > 
> > I was wondering weather you could answer a question I have 
> about support for
> > Microsoft Office applications.
> > The question is about weather wine can emulate (or has its 
> own version of)
> > the "ODBC Data Sources (32bit)" application found in
> > c:\windows\Control Panel\ODBC Data Sources
> > This application is used to set up DSN drivers for ODBC 
> access on Access and
> > Excel.
> > An example of one of the drivers that this application 
> handles is the MyODBC
> > 3.51 windows driver.
> 
> The "ODBC Data Sources" application in the control panel merely
> manipulates registry entries.  If all you need to do is set 
> them up, you
> can do that easily with regedit.
> 
> If you're wondering if they will work after you set them up, someone
> else will have to answer that question :-)
> 
> --
> James Juran
> jamesjuran at alumni.psu.edu
> 

To the best of my knowledge there is no such application, and it would be
strange if there were.

The WINE ODBC32 module is merely a wrapper around any suitable Linux ODBC
module.  For example we use unixODBC.  Thus the WINE ODBC module has no real
need to access the registry since all the work is being done by the Linux
ODBC module.  The way that the Linux ODBC module is configure depends upon
which one you use.

The unixODBC module, for example, uses a odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini file to
store its configuration information.  Although it does have a graphical
configuration tool, with plugins for some database drivers, I prefer to edit
the files by hand.

That being said, it may be necessary to add some information to the registry
for some ODBC-based applications.  I do know that Crystal Reports directly
accesses the registry for ODBC information rather than asking ODBC itself.

HTH

Bill