Help installing ruby-odbc on XP

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I am trying to install ruby-odbc on Windows XP and am stuck at the
first command. When I run ruby extconf.rb, I get the following:

C:\lib\ruby-odbc-0.996>ruby extconf.rb
checking for sql.h... yes
checking for sqlext.h... yes
checking for SQLTCHAR... yes
checking for odbcinst.h... yes
checking for SQLAllocConnect() in -lodbc32... no
Can not locate odbc libraries

I copied the odbc_utf8.so and odbc.so to the following location
.../ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt according to the documentation.

I'm a bit of a newb, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
eric

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It's built into the one click installer. :slight_smile:

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On 2/3/06, eching <bingopajama@hotmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to install ruby-odbc on Windows XP and am stuck at the
first command. When I run ruby extconf.rb, I get the following:

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Yes, the easiest route would be to use the One-Click Ruby Installer
for Windows which comes with the ODBC support already built. You can
find it here:

  http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/

Curt

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On 2/3/06, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2/3/06, eching <bingopajama@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to install ruby-odbc on Windows XP and am stuck at the
> first command. When I run ruby extconf.rb, I get the following:

It's built into the one click installer. :slight_smile:

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You know....I am using the one-click installer. duh.

Yeah, it's there. yay, I can now happily replace perl with ruby as my
language of choice for writing test scripts. Thanks for that tip.