If you like the challenge, don't let me stop you -- it's always cool to test your abilities and knowledge. At the same time, I wonder if you'd be better off moving to the better-supported DBI setup, and using something like Apache::DBI for persistence.

Just some ideas to think about. And, of course, you may have very valid reasons for using sybperl, in which case please continue, and good luck.

----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.

Asim,

There is a difference between DBD::Sybase and sybperl which I both use. They depend on the c-library ctlib, of which there is a replacement freetds that also works with sybperl.

Point being the problems with linking to a windows library using cygwin.

The code in DBD::Sybase also uses the base of the sybperl functionality of the open client library.

mdupont

I'm not familiar with cygwin (or Windows in general :-), but a failed link is usually the sign that you are missing a library, or something like that.

I know that Scott Gray gets sqsh (http://www.sqsh.org/) to build under cygwin, and that uses the same libraries, so it should be possible.

Michael