On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Stefan Rehm wrote: > Thanks for your support. I just tried to give the linux commandline > client "gretlcli" a shot. Here i got this errormessage: > > /usr/lib/gretl-gtk2/odbc_import.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory
Very helpful, thanks. That's the mystery solved: the plugin that gretl needs to work with ODBC is not installed. In CVS I've ensured that you get a proper error message if that's the case. Now, to get this working... Are you using a pre-built gretl binary or are you building gretl yourself? To date we haven't included ODBC support in the gretl RPMs we build (to avoid introducing a dependency on unixODBC, which is quite specialized). If you're building gretl yourself, then you need to pass the option flag --with-odbc to gretl's configure script, and depending on where unixODBC is installed you may also need to pass --with-ODBC-prefix=<prefix>. (We need to add this information to the Appendix to the User's Guide that deals with ODBC.) Allin Cottrell
