Node 0.12 binaries

[patriksimek]

It would be nice to have this module updated with latest-node-compatible binaries.

[jorgeazevedo]

Thanks for getting in touch! I unfortunately do not have access to an azure account anymore. Would you be willing to compile some binaries and open a pull request?

There's a lot of forks to this project, maybe some binaries are already available?

[tysjiang]

Also would be extremely happy to see this updated for node 12 (sorry, can't help with the binaries though)

[jorgeazevedo]

@patriksimek @tysjiang
tldr: no can do. node-sqlserver does not compile with node 0.12.

I had some time to look into this. I setup the build environment on a x86 windows 7 VM and was able to compile with node 0.10 just fine. With node 0.12 it fails. It seems there were some interface changes at the V8 engine level. Many method calls node-sqlserver does are simply not available. Here's an example of a compilation error

c:\users\jorgeazevedo\documents\node-sqlserver\src\Utility.h(30): error C2248: 'v8::HandleScope::HandleScope' : cannot access protected member declared in class 'v8::HandleScope' [c:\Users\jorgeazevedo\Documents\node-sqlserver\build\sqlserver.vcxproj]
          c:\Users\jorgeazevedo\.node-gyp\0.12.0\deps\v8\include\v8.h(816) : see declaration of 'v8::HandleScope::HandleScope'
          c:\Users\jorgeazevedo\.node-gyp\0.12.0\deps\v8\include\v8.h(800) : see declaration of 'v8::HandleScope'

TThe C++ code needs to be rewritten so the functionality is implemented using the 0.12 V8 API. This is beyond me.

node-sqlserver is mostly dead these days. There are no Microsoft resources actively maintaining or developing this project. Support for this will have to come from the community. As of yet, I saw no talk of it in the project's issues, nor any forks with work in this direction.

If someone does implement it, I'll be glad to ship it :-) Until then, I'm closing this issue.