Ultimate goal: get DBD-Sybase working on Cygwin

Problem: Currently, I am trying to make the files in /DBD-Sybase-1.09 but I get a bunch of errors such as:


dbdimp.o:dbdimp.c.text+0x10224): undefined reference to `_ct_results@8'
...etc

After doing hours of research it seems that since I have Sybase 12 installed on Windows, I can't reference it from Cygwin/Linux. So I tried to install Sybase on Cygwin and ran into a ton of issue getting ASE to work, which are beyond my ability to resolve.

If someone much better versed in Unix/Cygwin could help me install a seperate version of Sybase 12 on Linux (without using ASE), then I think I will be able to make DBD-Sybase.

I am relatively new to Linux, so please bear with me.

I know nothing about Sybase, but your error message looks very much like linker problem. When linker creates a program, it does so from a bunch of object files and/or libraries. The latter are searched in the list of directories provided by the linker caller, and typical way is specifying search paths through LDPATH environment variable, and maybe also through LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. There other ways too.

The error message by itself is not sufficient to resolve your problem - the whole build process needs to be known.