package freetds

README.md

OCaml FreeTDS Binding

https://github.com/kennknowles/ocaml-freetds

An OCaml binding to the ct-lib portion of the freetds library, for interfacing with Sybase and Microsoft SQL databases.

Feature Summary

• Direct binding to the ct-lib interface

• Supports Dbi_freetds module included with ocamldbi

See the online documentation.

Known Bugs And Limitations

• Some data types, such as datetimes, are returned as strings, because I haven't had time to write a good binding for them yet.

• It would be nice to bind the dblib interface as well, and maybe even have the DBI module be able to use either, because I understand they have slightly different features

Installation

The easier way is to use opam:

opam install freetds

Quick Version:

$ tar xjvf ocaml-freetds-<version>.tar.bz2
$ cd ocaml-freetds-<version>
$ make
$ make install

Long Version:

1. akeThis will build ocaml-freetds. This requires FreeTDS development packages to be installed, see thedepexts` section in freetds.opam.

2. ake install` You may need to run this as root, or someone with permissions to the findlib's destdir. This should install ocaml-freetds as a findlib package, so you can use 'ocamlfind' to build things with it.

Special OSX Instructions

This seems to be the easiest way to get ready on OSX:

brew install ocaml
brew install opam
opam install jbuilder

Examples

In the examples subdirectory is a simple SQL dispatcher script written against the Ct module, and also one for the Dbi_freetds module.

Contributors

• Kenn Knowles (@KennKnowles)

• Christophe Troestler

• Brendan Long

License

ocaml-freetds is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License, version 2.1 See the file COPYING.LIB for details