[fpc-pascal] TDatabase, PostgreSQL and Mac OS X?

[Jeremy Cowgar]

Leonardo, Wow. That worked. I did a symlink from libpq.dylib to  
libpq.so and it works now.

Is there a proper way to do this on mac os x anyone?

Thanks Lenardo!

Jeremy

On Sep 27, 2006, at 7:55 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:

> I don't know too much about OS X, but can't you simply rename  
> libpq.dylib to libpq.so?
>
> --- Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at cowgar.com> wrote:
>
>> I have the following simple program that does not seem to be working.
>> Connectivity using postgres unit works fine. Here's the error and
>> then the program will follow. Thank you! Oh, a note. I do not have
>> libpq.so. I do have libpq.dylib. Also, my postgresql is installed in
>> a non-standard place, /usr/local/pgsql however other programs have
>> not had a problem with that thus far. I created symlinks to /usr/
>> local/pgsql/libpq* into /usr/lib but that did not solve the problem.
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> ------------
>> $ ./dbtest Connecting to database...
>> An unhandled exception occurred at $0007864C :
>> EInOutError : Can not load PosgreSQL client. Is it installed?  
>> (libpq.so)
>>    $0007864C
>>    $00054F87
>>
>> ------------
>>
>> program dbtest;
>>
>> uses sqldb, pqconnection;
>>
>> var
>> 	Fconnection  : tSQLConnection;
>>
>> begin
>> 	writeln('Connecting to database...');
>> 	
>> 	Fconnection := tpqConnection.Create(nil);
>> 	with Fconnection do
>> 	begin
>> 		DatabaseName := 'test';
>> 		open;
>> 	end;
>> 	
>> 	writeln('Connected...');
>> 	
>> 	Fconnection.Free;
>> end.
>>
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>
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