This section provides a table of the Rogue Wave® DB Link libraries and draws your attention to the special make files supplied to enable you to rebuild dynamically-loadable drivers. It is divided as follows:

Table 7.3 provides the names of Rogue Wave DB Link libraries. These names have been stripped of their suffix. The suffix depends on the operating system and compilation mode. It can be one of:

Notes:

The Microsoft SQL Server library dbmssql is deprecated and should not be used; use the OLE-DB library instead. The Microsoft SQL Server library is not supported on 64-bit platforms.

The delivery includes special makefiles to rebuild the dynamically-loadable drivers. These files are named Makefile.drv.

For all ports, these files use variables to locate the RDBMS client libraries. These variables follow the UNIX® convention of each RDBMS:

The delivery includes the object files needed to rebuild the drivers. These files are separated into two groups: the DB Link kernel files and the RDBMS-specific files. The DB Link kernel files are always the same but the RDBMS files change depending on the client libraries.

On UNIX ports, you need to set the value of RDBMS dedicated variables:

For the AIX port, the driver build process uses a special script called makeC++SharedLib, which is part of the compiler distribution.

To build the drivers, the client libraries must be “sharable” libraries—that is, .so files on UNIX®. The only exception is AIX, under which drivers can be built even from .a library files. If your current version of the client software does not include this type of library, building the drivers is impossible.