[fpc-pascal] FPC with Firebird SuperServer

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Andrew Hall wrote:

> We have been using Mac OS X 10.5 XCode 311, Firebird 211 Classic 32 bit with
> FPC 224 (which contains the fix for the framework .dylib extension so that
> libfbclient.dylib can be located).  This works with FPC, FlameRobin and
> RazorSQL.  However, reading Firebird's recommendation that unless there is a
> good reason, SuperServer should be used we have attempted this conversion.
> Switching to SuperServer 32 bit, FlameRobin and RazorSQL continue to work -
> but FPC raises an exception.  EInOutError : Can not load default Firebird
> clients ("libgds.dylib" or "libfbclient.dylib"). Check your installation.
> When the Framework is opened in the OS X library we confirm that
> libfbclient.dylib is no longer found (although the other 4 library files
> remain).
> 
> Questions
> 1) Can FPC work with Firebird SuperServer - if so, what configuration changes
> are required or does the FPC library required modification?

It can, and no change should be necessary.

> 2) Is there other advice the forum can offer (eg. does Classic remain a
> reasonable choice, is SuperServer support planned, etc).

>From the client perspective, there is no difference whatsoever whether
you are running superserver or classic. I use both.

The problem you are experiencing is an installation problem, not an
architectural problem. For some reason, the FPC application fails to
find the libraries. However, I have no idea why this happens. 
I'm not a Mac OS X expert, so I can't help with that.

As far as the 'recommendation' is concerned: for systems with multiple
CPUs it is better to use Classic server, as Superserver can use only
1 processor. The upcoming version 2.5 of Firebird should remedy that.

Michael.