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Peter Tillemans (pti@mail.net4all.be)
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 00:29:28 +0100 

Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19971110002928.0098e870@mail.net4all.be>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 00:29:28 +0100
From: Peter Tillemans <pti@mail.net4all.be>
Subject: Re:

At 01:36 PM 11/9/97 -0500, you wrote:
> Folks: Hi. I'm new to the mail list and mSQL, but I've been
>to the usual places (Hughes, mSQL-PC, Nerosworld, the FAQ, etc.) and
>can't find what I'm looking for. Perhaps someone can help.
>
> 1) Does anyone know of what's happening w/ mSQL 2.03 and
>Win32 ? The mSQL-PC web site is very unclear about that. They say
>there's a port of mSQL 2.01 using Cygnus-Win32, but that's it. Does
>anyone know if Win32 is part of the standard development tree (I can
>grok the heavy d/l of the Cygnus Win-32 compiler, but if I don't want to
>if someone's already got mSQL 2.0X recompiled and posted someplace.)
>
> 2) I've been hacking around w/ the 1.16c port for Win32 and have
>had some success w/ VB 4.0. The VB sample I pulled down from Bond's
>FTP site got me started but I've had a minor hangup w/ a CGI I wrote
>that does a simple SQL INSERT. I can inspect the INSERT stmt and it
>looks perfect. In fact, the stmt in question actually completes and
>new records are added to the data base. However, the Query API call
>always fails for this one CGI. The person who did the VB port didn't
>include a VB function definition for the msqlGetErrMsg API, so I added
>it, but I never recv an error message or even a GPF in case I incorrectly
>coded the VB function def. Perhaps someone has worked something out
>in this area. I would include a copy of the VB function def I wrote
>for the GetErrMsg fn, but it's at work and I'm sending this from home.
>
> 3) Is anyone doing anything w/ Python and mSQL under Win32 ? I've
>decided to do all of my production CGIs using Python and I'm wondering
>what it'll take to get that going.
Personally I would go with C/C++, Perl or Java. Especially for CGI perl is
very nice, either as ISAPI (activeware port) or using Apache/mod_perl
(hairy but impressive). In any case mSQL works in both cases.

Peter Tillemans