The kdesupport/odbc subdirectory contains
libraries that forms the basic ODBC layer
of the kde project.

It consists of two alternative odbc driver
managers, iodbc and unixODBC, and libodbc++,
a C++ wrapper library in the spirit of the
JDBC API.

Please see the respective subdirectories
for additional informations.

Both the unixODBC and the libodbc++
package is larger and only a subpart
is included here. If you are interested
to learn about additional material,
please check out the homepages of the
libraries.

Versions :
iodbc    : 2.50.2
unixodbc : Beta1.0.5
odbc++   : ...

Both of the driver managers are compiled
and installed by default, while libodbc++
is (configurably) bound to iodbc.

Use the --enable-unixodbc flag to compile
libodbc++ with the unixODBC driver manager.

Note that both driver manager support
different odbc versions. By default,
the 2.50 version is selected, which is
well suited to both dms. One might like
to try --with-odbcver=0x0300 to enable
version 3.00. Note further, that version
3.00 support in both dms is work in
progress.

Lars Doelle, Jun 17, 1999
