well I can get around this error by simply defining wxUSE_ODBC 1 in the header files of my project. Somehow, somewhere this must get undefined or set back to zero. Strange. however there has emerged another issue.
it says there is an undefined reference to SQLGetConnectOptionW@12.
I have located this method under wx/isqlext.h. If I include this though the compile balks about redefinitions with isql.h. So I removed that #define call, however the problem remains... how do I get this method linked properly?
Thanks!