Re: use psqlodbc on Windows without Windows driver manager?

Hello Takayuki,

thanks for your reply :-)
Calling the ODBC driver via driver manager requires the driver to be
installed in Windows (means: written in the Windows registry). But a
test distribution of our (ODBC-)application should be able to run
without the need of any installation procedure and without administrator
rights.
IBM's DB2-CLI (call level interface) can be operated in 2 modes: with or
without an ODBC driver manager. So i hoped that the PostgreSQL ODBC
driver has this ability, too.

Kind regards,
Dieter Mueller

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Betreff: Re: [ODBC] use psqlodbc on Windows without Windows driver manager?
Von: Tsunakawa, Takayuki <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>
An: Dieter Mueller (BOI GmbH) <dieter(dot)mueller(at)boi(dot)at>,
pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org <pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Datum: 12.04.2016 02:35

>> From: pgsql-odbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> [mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Dieter Mueller (BOI
>> GmbH)
>> is psql-odbc designed to work on Windows without the Windows ODBC driver
>> manager?
>>
>> (I want to prepare a distribution of our software for testing purposes that
>> can be used without any installation on Windows - no ODBC driver installation
>> as well)
>>
>> I created my own psqlodbc30a.lib of psqlodbc30a.dll by calling MS tools
>> "dumpbin /exports ..." and "lib /def:...", then I linked my ODBC application
>> with the new psqlodbc30a.lib instead of Microsoft's obdc32.lib and
>> odbccp32.lib.
>
> I don't think it's reasonable. According to the ODBC spec, the Driver Manager does many tasks, including error checks, and the ODBC driver depends on it.
>
> Why do you want to avoid linking with odbc32.lib?
>
> Regards
> Takayuki Tsunakawa
>