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digitalmars.D.learn - Using PostgreSQL with D.

reply Joshua <savagejoshua gmail.com> writes:
I am working on learning D right now (comming mainly from c/c++/java
background) and I was wanting to use PostgreSQL in my app. I've been spoiled by
java for so long that I am amazed that its been so hard to find any info on
getting postres to work with D. 

About the closest I've come is trying to get DDBI to work but the libpq.lib
file that comes with postgres in the /ms directory does not seem to link
correctly. Some info seems to indicate that I need to get VC++ and convert the
lib then convert it again using a tool that I would need to purchase. 

Does this sound correct? Am I just missing some postgres driver in Tango (the
std library I use) that I just need to import and I missed it in the API?
Jul 12 2007
parent reply BCS <ao pathlink.com> writes:
Reply to Joshua,


 I am working on learning D right now (comming mainly from c/c++/java
 background) and I was wanting to use PostgreSQL in my app. I've been
 spoiled by java for so long that I am amazed that its been so hard to
 find any info on getting postres to work with D.
 
 About the closest I've come is trying to get DDBI to work but the
 libpq.lib file that comes with postgres in the /ms directory does not
 seem to link correctly. Some info seems to indicate that I need to get
 VC++ and convert the lib then convert it again using a tool that I
 would need to purchase.
 
 Does this sound correct? Am I just missing some postgres driver in
 Tango (the std library I use) that I just need to import and I missed
 it in the API?
 


I've never done it but if the code you want to run is in a .dll then there 
is a tool (IIRC free from digitalmars) that makes a DMD style .lib from a 
.dll.

If the code is actual in the .lib then I think there is another free tool 
for converting MS style stuff to digitalmars style.
Jul 12 2007
parent Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
BCS wrote:

 Reply to Joshua,
 

 I am working on learning D right now (comming mainly from c/c++/java
 background) and I was wanting to use PostgreSQL in my app. I've been
 spoiled by java for so long that I am amazed that its been so hard to
 find any info on getting postres to work with D.

 About the closest I've come is trying to get DDBI to work but the
 libpq.lib file that comes with postgres in the /ms directory does not
 seem to link correctly. Some info seems to indicate that I need to get
 VC++ and convert the lib then convert it again using a tool that I
 would need to purchase.

 Does this sound correct? Am I just missing some postgres driver in
 Tango (the std library I use) that I just need to import and I missed
 it in the API?


 
 I've never done it but if the code you want to run is in a .dll then 
 there is a tool (IIRC free from digitalmars) that makes a DMD style .lib 
 from a .dll.


Right.  "implib" from the Basic Utilities Package:
  http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip
  http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/implib.html


 If the code is actual in the .lib then I think there is another free 
 tool for converting MS style stuff to digitalmars style.


Not a free tool, but part of the Extended Utilities Package, which is 
only $15. It's called coff2omf.
   http://www.digitalmars.com/eup.html
   http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/coff2omf.html
 From what I hear this only works on certain flavors of coff files, so 
it's not a surefire solution.

--bb
Jul 12 2007