Installation guide

1. Introduction

mx.ODBC.Manager prefers iODBC over unixODBC over DataDirect if

more than one ODBC driver manager is installed.

• You should setup at least one configured and running ODBC data source

for testing purposes.

Mac OS X

• Mac OS X 10.4/10.5 Intel and PPC 32-bit and Mac OS X 10.6 Intel 64-bit

are supported.

• Python 2.4 or later needs to be installed and working.

• Mac OS X uses a variant of iODBC as system ODBC manager. On Mac

OS X 10.4 and 10.5 this comes pre-installed with the system. On Mac OS

X 10.6, the ODBC manager is available from Apple as separate download.

Please use the ODBC manager GUI interfaces to configure the data

sources. Alternatively, you can choose to use a DSN-less setup which

defines all connection details in the connection string.

• If you want to use the unixODBC manager from MacPorts

instead of the

system iODBC manager, you first have to install unixODBC from the

MacPorts and then tell the Mac OS X linker where to find the ports

libraries by adjusting the environment variable DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

prior to starting Python:

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib

• You should setup at least one configured and running ODBC data source

for testing purposes.