I have recently upgraded my 17" Powerbook to a 17" MacBook Pro … While it is unbelievably quick for developing in Servoy (a real real improvement - it starts servoy including loading a solution in 16 seconds (a restart, not a cold start), it is also way faster than my G5 2.0Ghz Dual). A problem though is that it seems that Sybase Central will not run. I have the latest version installed (9.0.2) for Mac and I get the error “the library dbput9_r could not be loaded. This may be because the provider is being re-loaded (in which case you need to restart the viewer) or because the library could not be found in the Adaptive Server Anywhere installation. Service management will not be available.” I am able to ok the message and open sybase central but it does not see my repository running on my machine (after I’ve opened servoy). It seems to be an incompatibility with intel Macs (its the only difference between my 2 Laptops.
I would be grateful for any info anyone has about intel sybase (sybase its-self seems to be running fine as Servoy is perfectly happy)
I have recently upgraded my 17" Powerbook to a 17" MacBook Pro … While it is unbelievably quick for developing in Servoy (a real real improvement - it starts servoy including loading a solution in 16 seconds (a restart, not a cold start), it is also way faster than my G5 2.0Ghz Dual). A problem though is that it seems that Sybase Central will not run. I have the latest version installed (9.0.2) for Mac and I get the error "the library dbput9_r could not be loaded./quote]
I’m aware it’s not a solution, but what about running Sybase Central under Parallels? Does it work or won’t it be able to see dbs running under OSX on the same machine?
Another question (since I’m moving to Macintel tomorrow): even InteractiveSQL is not working?
I would also recommend that you consider using Aqua Data Studio. You can do almost all of the admin things done in Sybase Central and in all other databases as well. A truly great tool. Finally if you must have Sybase Central for something it will almost certainly be something that you only need for a short period of time and you could use Bootcamp/Windows to access Sybase Central for that. Then switch back to OS X for everything else.
The error message indicates that dbput6.dylib cannot be loaded. If you are running on a PPC machine architecture, your DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable does not include the SQL Anyhere library folder (typically installed into /Applications/SQLAnywhere9/System/lib).
Note that the SQL Anywhere installation sets this environment variable. This setting takes effect after you log into the machine however.
Hope this helps.
To get an idea what the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to issue the following command from the terminal.
john.allen:
Has Sybase Central been checked by iAnywhere with the Mac Intels? Do you guys have any problems installing it?
John
No, it won’t install from the installer. I guess we should be thankful the database server actually runs on Intel Macs…certainly the iAnywhere tools have been dicey at best on Mac OS X. Now that they have to put some work into them hopefully a few of the issues will be fixed in the process.
Riccardino:
I’m aware it’s not a solution, but what about running Sybase Central under Parallels? Does it work or won’t it be able to see dbs running under OSX on the same machine?
We have this on the list of things to try. We’re not using Sybase so much anymore these days so not a top priority. Would be interested to hear how it is done.
I’m aware it’s not a solution, but what about running Sybase Central under Parallels? Does it work or won’t it be able to see dbs running under OSX on the same machine?
I am not working with the new MacBook Pro yet but I can imagine that it is possible to run in under Parallels.
Downside is then that you will have to have Parallels up all the time, sitting there and eating time and capacity from your processor and, that you will have to connect throught the ip address of your parallels instance instead of running your db’s from localhost…
Running under parallels is a good idea and is what I do at the moment. I always have parallels up as it’s very enjoyable to run Windows in a window. Just make sure to get 2 GB of ram in your Intel Mac to make it behave. If you start the dbsrv on the Mac side your mac apps can still connect to localhost and from the parallels side you connect by IP.
iAnywhere does have plans to support Mac OS X Intel. iAnywhere is targetting this support for the 4th quarter of this year.
The problem with running Sybase Central/Interactive SQL on Mac OS X Intel stems from the fact that the Java VM running these tools is a Intel based binary. The Java VM cannot load dbput9_r.dylib due to it being a PowerPC (PPC) library.
Comments regarding the installer surprises me as it the installer should be able to run in the Rosetta emulation environment due to it being a PPC binary.
Apple’s Rosetta is true to the original…I think about a 3rd of it is knocked off You are in good company, Apple Remote Desktop doesn’t crank up under emulation either.
I had to run Sybase to change a primary key recently and out of desperation tried it in Parallels. It worked surprisingly well (i.e. exactly as expected). I have not investigated the Aqua Data Studio route but am going to look into that now (I think I tried it a few years ago but it didn’t support something I was doing or something, haven’t looked at it since.) I second what Jan says about Windows in a window, its brilliant. Mac → Windows → Ubuntu → Windows → Ubuntu → Mac → burned legs → Windows → etc…
I’m waiting for delievry of a MBP and guess that it will become a popular option for Developers. Have you guys got any HowTo’s or Gotcha’s that you would care to share?
I’m waiting for delievry of a MBP and guess that it will become a popular option for Developers. Have you guys got any HowTo’s or Gotcha’s that you would care to share?
TIP: fasten your seat belt, when you launch Servoy (especially if you previously owned a Powerbook G4
IMPRESSION: Servoy runs very fast on OSX, but it seems even a little faster under Parallels/XP (it may be due to Sybase, running natively on windows and under Rosetta on XP). Anyway, on both systems everything is really fast.
big gotcha is that Sybase Central doesn’t work… see topic… My solution has been to use Parallels, Windows XP SP2 and shared folders (Sybase Central saving .db into the servoy/database directory). This works just fine.
I believe that I have not once opened Servoy on my 2.0Ghz Dual G5 since my 17" MBP arrived about a month ago. yes. its as good as its ever been in Mac land.
… While it is unbelievably quick for developing in Servoy (a real real improvement - it starts servoy including loading a solution in 16 seconds (a restart, not a cold start), it is also way faster than my G5 2.0Ghz Dual). A problem though is that it seems that Sybase Central will not run. I have the latest version installed (9.0.2) for Mac and I get the error "the library dbput9_r could not be loaded./quote]