[php-src] Issue #15176: Drop support for pdo_dblib on Windows

From: Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 23:46:30 +0000
Subject: [php-src] Issue #15176: Drop support for pdo_dblib on Windows
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Issue: https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/15176 Author: cmb69 ### Description I just had a closer look at https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/pdo_dblib/config.w32, and found it amazing that you can build the same DLL with two different names by just configuring --with-pdo-dblib and --with-pdo-mssql, if you manage to get the appropriate dependencies. That appears to be a problem, though, since [FreeTDS](https://www.freetds.org/) claims to be a set of libraries for Unix and Linux, and to my knowlegde Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server are no longer compatible for decades. Furthermore, it occurs to me that pdo_sqlsrv is preferred to work with MS SQL Server for many years, and I can hardly imagine that anybody still uses pdo_mssql to connect to an SAP ASE (what it's apparently called since 2010). For what it's worth, the official Windows builds neither contain php_pdo_dblib.dll nor php_pdo_mssql.dll for a long time. So, can anyone shed some light on the state of pdo_dblib on Windows? Does anybody still use it? Can it even be built? If not, I suggest to drop support for pdo_dblib on Windows altogether (i.e. remove config.w32 and the couple of Windows specific code in the C sources of the extension). And yes, this requires discussion on the internals and internals-win mailing lists, and possibly an RFC, but I wanted to gauge the feedback on this ticket first. /cc @SakiTakamachi as codeowner of pdo_dblib

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