ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server can't open lib on pyodbc while connecting on AWS E2 ubuntu instance

Question

Background: i have been at it for about a week but still no luck. the same driver (13.0) on my system (Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS) works just fine with my pyodbc p

Answer 1

As per nehaljwani's GitHub comment, this issue is related to libgcc mismatch. The official page suggests the minimum version of libgcc required for symbol v3.4.21 is v5.1.0.

GCC 5.1.0: GLIBCXX_3.4.21, CXXABI_1.3.9

Here are two suggestions how to solve it:

• Update libgcc to >= 5.1.0 (recommended) by executing conda update libgcc. E.g.

  $ conda update libgcc
  ...
  The following packages will be UPDATED:
      libgcc: 4.8.5-2 --> 5.2.0-0
  
  Proceed ([y]/n)? y
  
  $ conda list gcc
  # packages in environment at /conda/envs/test:
  #
  libgcc                    5.2.0                         0
  (test) root@75eb43ff7f79:~$ readelf --version-info /conda/envs/test/lib/libstdc++.so | grep -Po '(?<=GLIBCXX_)([\d.]*)' | sort -Vr | head -1
  3.4.21
  

• LD_PRELOAD trick (hacky)

  (test) root@75eb43ff7f79:~$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 python test.py
  Reading data from table
  Microsoft SQL Server vNext (CTP2.0) - 14.0.500.272 (X64)
          Apr 13 2017 11:44:40
          Copyright (C) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
          Developer Edition (64-bit) on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS)
  

Troubleshooting

• Make sure the configured driver file (/opt/microsoft/msodbcsql/lib64/libmsodbcsql-13.0.so.1.0) configured in your INI file (see: odbcinst -j) exist and has read and executable permissions (O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC)
• See: Installing the Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server on Linux and macOS.