ODBC on 64-bit Erlang

[Pieter Rautenbach]

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Hello Richard

>Is there a good reason why the odbc application doesn't work with 64- 
>bit Erlang on Unix? The Makefile which normally builds  
>"odbcserver" (a port process which links with libodbc) explicitly  
>prohibits it in this case:
>

I came across this too.

>ifneq ($(BITS64),yes)
>EI_LIB = -lerl_interface -lei
>UNIX_TARGET = $(BIN_DIR)/odbcserver
>EXE_TARGET = $(UNIX_TARGET)
>endif
>

I just removed the test condition and forced the build. After testing 
it seemed that odbcserver is working fine. I'm actually using it like
that in a production system. I searched the web for more information 
on using odbcserver with 64-bit architecture, but found none.

>There seem to be a few instances of int types being cast to void * in  
>the source code. But, other than that, is the application  
>fundamentally broken on 64-bit architectures, or could it be easily  
>fixed?
>

I haven't done too much code digging myself, but I couldn't see any 
problems. If anyone else have come to other insights, please respond.

Pieter Rautenbach