@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ The current source can be downloaded from
1313
1414WIN32 binaries (the ODBC driver DLL, install/uninstall programs) are in
1515
16- http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/sqliteodbc-win32.zip
16+ http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/sqliteodbc.exe
1717
18- The binaries were made with SQLite 2.8.17, SQLite 3.3.6 , MingW
18+ The binaries were made with SQLite 2.8.17, SQLite 3.3.7 , MingW
1919cross compiler and tested on Windows NT 4.0 with the query tool
2020of MS Excel 97, with StarOffice 5.2 and OpenOffice 1.1 and 2.0.
2121Execute the sqliteodbc.exe NSIS installer to unpack the necessary
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ applet and provide the name of the SQLite database file to be worked
2626on as an absolute pathname including the drive letter, eg as
2727"C:\TEMP\SQLite.DB". The busy (or lock) timeout for the database
2828can be specified in the respective field. If empty a default value
29- of 1000 milliseconds is used.
29+ of 100000 milliseconds is used.
3030
3131Other tests were made on Linux with the "isql" command line tool
3232and the "DataManager" GUI tool of unixODBC 2.1.0.
@@ -212,6 +212,24 @@ Build instructions for MingW cross compiler for Win32 targets:
212212 final step is creating an NSIS installer.
213213
214214
215+ Win32 install/remove by RUNDLL32
216+
217+ Each driver DLL provides entry points for ODBC driver installation
218+ and removal which can be invoked from RUNDLL32.EXE, eg
219+
220+ ### install sqliteodbc.dll
221+ C:\> rundll32 [path]sqliteodbc.dll,install [quiet]
222+
223+ ### remove sqlite3odbc.dll
224+ C:\> rundll32 [path]sqlite3odbc.dll,uninstall [quiet]
225+
226+ If [path] is not provided newer Windows OSes tend to favor the
227+ sqlite*odbc*dll in system directories over the current directory,
228+ thus better provide an absolute path to the DLL of interest.
229+ If the word "quiet" appears anywhere after the DLL/function
230+ name, no info message boxes pop up (but errors are shown).
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232+
215233DNS-less connection to the driver
216234
217235 Using the SQLDriverConnect() API it should be possible to connect to
@@ -238,7 +256,7 @@ TODO:
238256- improve documentation
239257
240258
241- 2006-07-23
259+ 2006-08-20
242260Christian Werner
243261mailto:chw@ch-werner.de
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