The installation procedure installs the following libraries into INFORMIXDIR/lib/cli. In each data source specification section in the odbc.ini file, set the driver value indicating the full path to one of the following library filenames.

Filename

Description

libifcli.a or libcli.a

Static version for single (nonthreaded) library

libifcli.so or iclis09b.so

Shared version for single (nonthreaded) library

libthcli.a

Static version for multithreaded library

libthcli.so or iclit09b.so

Shared version for multithreaded library

libifdrm.so or idmrs09a.so

Shared library for DMR (thread safe)

For more information about the odbc.ini file, see The odbc.ini File.

If you do not use a driver manager, your application needs to link to either the static or the shared version of the IBM Informix ODBC Driver libraries.

The following compile command links an application to the thread-safe version of the IBM Informix ODBC Driver libraries:

cc ... -L$INFORMIXDIR/lib/cli -lifdmr - lthcli 

The installation procedure installs the following libraries into INFORMIXDIR\lib.

Filename

Description

iclit09b.lib

Enables linking directly to the driver without the use of a driver manager

iregt07b.lib

Allows linking directly to iregt07b.dll