B WDB Sybase Interface

WDB was originally written as an interface to Sybase, so this is the oldest and most well tested of the interfaces.

Requirements

The Sybase interface was written for Perl4, and sybperl version 1.x. There now exist a sybperl version 2.x, which will work with Perl5, but the WDB interface has not been adopted to sybperl 2.x yet.

You can find the Perl4 sources at :

ftp://ftp.uu.net/languages/perl/perl.tar.gz or
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/ports/perl4/unix/perl-4.036.tar.Z

Please note that the binary is not enough, you need the object file called uperl.o to link sybperl, so you have to get the source and compile perl your self.

Also, you will need sybperl to use the WDB Sybase interface. The sybperl source is available from

    ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/perl/db/perl4/sybperl/

Sybperl is a set of user-defined subroutines letting you access a Sybase database server using Perl. You will also need the Sybase OpenClient DB-Library to build sybperl.

Configuration

Follow the normal WDB configuration instructions, but remember to :

• Set $DBI_FILE in the wdb.conf file to syb_dbi.pl.
• Set the first line in the wdb script to sybperl.

Creating FDF's

Included is also a Sybase version of mkfdf, called sybfdf, which will produce a working template FDF file given a database and table name.

Example FDF's

A set of sample forms for the Sybase demo database 'pubs2' is included in the ./conf/fdf/pubs2/ directory.