1. Create an Access Database.
1.1 Start Microsoft Access.
1.2 Click on File -> New.
(The new Database-Window appears).
1.3 Select any folder and click on Create.
1.4 Close MS Access.
2. Create an ODBC Connection to your Database 2.1 Click on Start -> Settings -> Control Panel.
2.2 Once you are in the Control Panel, double-click on "ODBC Data Sources or 32-bit ODBC".
2.3 click on the "Add..." button.
2.4 Now the "Create New Data Source" window appears.
2.5 Select "Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)" and click on "Finish"
Now the "ODBC Microsoft Access Setup" Window appears.
2.6 The "Data Source Name" must be "odbc_demo" (you can of course use another name for your own Projects).
2.7 Click on "Select" in the Database section and select your Database.
2.8 Click on "OK" (When you get a "File-not-found" error close Microsoft Access and make sure that nobody is connected to this database).
2.9 now you can see a new entry in the "User Data Source" window.
2.10 Click on "OK".
2. Compile your first SPDB program.
2.1 start Dev-C++
2.2 Click on "File" -> "Import" -> "Import MS Visual C++ Project".
2.3 Click on "...".
2.4 Select the file sptk-x.x\VC6\db_list_view.dsp (x.x is the SPTK-Version number) and click on "Open"
2.5 Click on "Import".
2.6 Click on "Yes".
2.7 Press ALT+P.
2.8 (VERY IMPORTANT) Select "Win32 Console" in the "Type" Section!!!
2.9 Click on "Parameters".
2.10 Click on "Add Library or Object" under the "Linker"-Textbox.
2.11 Select the file SPTKlib.a form the devcpp/lib directory.
2.12 Click on "Open".
2.13 Repeat 2.10 to 2.12 with the files libfltk.a, libfltk_forms.a, libfltk_images.a, libodbc32.a, libodbcpp32.a and libfltk_gl.a
(should look like this ;-))
2.14 Compile and run the Program (press F9) -> a DOS-Box will appear and close immediately.
3. Examine your compiled Program
3.1 Run a MS-DOS Box (click on "Start"->"Run" and open command.exe (under Windows 2000/XP you must open cmd.exe))
3.2 Go into your SPTK-x.x\VC6 directory (cd sptk-2.2alpha\vc6).
3.3 Type "db_list_view" and press enter
3.4 Now you (may be) see this error:
This is because my Microsoft Access version (Access 2002) does not understand the "TEMP" command in the MySQL-Syntax. So I change the original Source a bit :-):
First, I removed the "TEMP" in line 106.
Then, I added The following line:
CQuery query0(&db,"DROP TABLE IF EXISTS companies");
This creates a new CQuery called query0.
To execute this Query I added this line:
query0.exec();
The edited program should look like this (I have underlined my changes in green):
3.5 Recompile and run your Program (F9). Now you should see this:
Congratulations! You have successfully compiled a SPDB program with Dev-C++.
If you want to compile and run any other SPTK-Samples (like the sptk_test or odbc_demo) you need to include all SPTK, FLTK and ODBC libraries and (maybe) change the SQL-Syntax (remove the "TEMP" and add an "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS"-Query if you get MySQL-Errors).
When your program runs fine you can change the Type from Win32Console to Win32Gui (Press ALT+P and click on Win32GUI), but than the SQL-Errors will not be shown to the user.