Re: [foxboro] data retrieval with legacy historian

Yes, through ODBC calls.  There is a pseudo (scaled down) 
SQL driver provided in DFW or whatever they call it now.

Glen



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Subject: Re: [foxboro] data retrieval with legacy historian


> 
> Can foxapi grab data from the legacy historian?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] data retrieval with legacy historian
> 
> 
> 
> Here's what I use, it works without issue:
> 
> cc -g -I../hdr -I/usr/include/fox -DSUN  -o ../exe/extract=20
> ../obj/extract.o
> ../obj/fgetstr.o
> ../obj/gErrorTxt.o
> ../obj/AdjustTime.o
> ../obj/CalcIntrvl.o
> ../obj/Date.o
> ../obj/Debug.o
> ../obj/ExtractHelp.o
> ../obj/HistAccess.o
> ../obj/LogError.o
> ../obj/PrintRec.o
> ../obj/SpanChk.o
> ../obj/Reduce.o
> ../obj/TimeChk.o
> ../obj/globals.o
> -lhist -lfox -lfoxfdr -lsocket -lnsl -lm -lposix4=20
> 
> I know that there were errors in the examples of how to link - seems
> like this list had this topic a long time ago.
> 
> In any case, this works for me.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alex Johnson
> Invensys
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: [foxboro] data retrieval with legacy
> historian
> 
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions on this topic,
> 
> I have tried several proposed solutions, but with no satisfying
> result.
> 
> The files are not found on our system, i tried libisam.so
> libisam.a same as
> libPW.so and libPW.a.
> One should expect these files on the system as they are used in
> the examples
> given in the documentation of the historian.
> Are these files installed by the system or must they be
> installed
> separately?
> The libhist.a library is in the /opt/fox/hstorian/bin/ folder.
> 
> I have also tried the other options
> 
> cc testhist.c -I/usr/include/fox -lgen -lsocket -history -lfox
> -lfoxlc
> -lposix4 -lm
> gives  Undefined symbol errors first referenced in file
> /usr/lib/libhistory.so
> Like: rq_msgs, get_data etc.
> 
> The gcc option I can not test because we use the ansi c compiler
> from Sun
> 
> 
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Ronny
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Subject: [foxboro] data retrieval with legacy historian
> >=20
> >=20
> > Ronny,
> > I'm not sure exactly which libraries you need to include.  The
> missing
> > library file names are libisam.so or libPW.so I think. Try
> searching for
> > those files and make sure their paths are included in the
> LIBPATH
> > environment variable. Or you can put the full path name in the
> compiler
> > command line.
> >=20
> > Cyrus Taft
> >=20
> >=20
> > Message text written by INTERNET:foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >cc testhist.c -L/opt/fox/hstorian/bin -I/usr/include/fox
> -lhist -lisam
> > -lfox
> > -lPW
> >=20
> > I get the following errors
> >=20
> > ld: fatal: library -lisam : not found
> > ld: fatal: library -lPW: not found


 
 
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