[Qt-interest] Building QDB2

[Robert Hairgrove]

Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
>> Im trying to build the QDB2 sql driver or DB2... In the docs it says you
>> need to have "IBM DB2 development client library"
>>
>> However, for the life of me.. I cant find the development client library.
>> I don't care if I have to purchase it (its for a client, so based on
>> the performance I might be able to justify buying it) but I cnat even
>> find a copy forsale.

> They're included in DB2 Express, at least... that's where I've found
> them.
> http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/
> 

Did you ever get this to work? I downloaded and installed DB2 Express 
edition from the IBM site and it installed successfully on Ubuntu 8.04. 
However, the Qt configure script supplied with the (open)source package 
for Qt 4.5.0 seems to disable building DB2 by default since it 
apparently doesn't distinguish between GPL'ed and LGPL'ed versions. Here 
is a snippet starting at line 649 of configure:

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# check SQL drivers, mouse drivers and decorations available in this package
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# opensource version removes some drivers, so force them to be off
CFG_SQL_tds=no
CFG_SQL_oci=no
CFG_SQL_db2=no
^^^^^^^^^^^

I commented out the line pertaining to DB2, but still no go ... it can't 
find the headers, although they are there. I thought about adding the 
path to the DB2 headers to the PATH environment variable, but 
unfortunately there is also a header called "sql.h" in the DB2 tree. And 
since I am also trying to build Qt with ODBC turned on, I don't think 
that is the right solution because ODBC has its own sql.h ...

In spite of what others have stated about opensource Qt 4.5 being 
identical in functionality with the commercial version, I'm not 
convinced just yet! ;)