2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain DataWidget

2.2 Requirements

This version was tested with:

• Qt 1.44 and 2.0.1.
  The Qt library includes the base classes of data aware widgets. If you use KDE 1.1 or 1.1.1, the Qt library is already installed. You can get a copy from http://www.troll.no
• unixODBC-Beta1.0.6.
  This is an ODBC driver manager. It comes with some nice utilities. The homepage is: http://genix.net/unixODBC/
• iodbc-2.50.3.
  This is anoter ODBC driver manager. The projekt isn't very active. But due to the openlink odbc-udbc bridge it can access many different databases. You can get a copy from http:/www.iodbc.org/. The version that comes from the openlink site didn't work for me.
• myodbc-2.50.24.
  This is an ODBC driver. You can get a copy from http://www.mysql.com
• openlink Multi Tier Driver 3.2.
  This is an ODBC driver. It constists of the iODBC driver manager, a odbc-udbc bridge ant their proprietary udbc driver. You can get a copy from http://www.openlinksw.co.uk
• Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.0.3.3.
  Sybase allows commercial use without licence fees, but I can't figure out if you have to pay for the openlink ODBC driver.
• ADABAS D Version 11.00.07.
  This test FAILED. The ODBC driver returned a "not implemented" and I didn't write a workaround.

2.3 Compilation and installation

In order to compile and install DataWidget on your system, type the following in the base directory of the DataWidget distribution:

% ./configure
% make
% make install


If you use iODBC, add a flag to configure:

% ./configure --with-iodbc
% make
% make install


See ./configure --help for further details.

Since DataWidget uses autoconf you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at Edwin Glaser

This version builds a test program and a shared library The names of the installed includefiles follow the pattern db*.h. The shared library is called /usr/local/lib/libdatawidget.so.0.2.1

You can run the test program without installation.