[fpc-pascal] ibase package

[Tony Whyman]

Antonio,

Be careful on Ubuntu (as with all Debian) you only get libfbclient.so
installed when you also have the development package (firebird-dev)
installed. Better to load the libfbclient.so.2 library which gets
installed with the libfclient2 package.

Regards

Tony Whyman
MWA Software

On 18/11/13 12:11, Antonio Fortuny wrote:
>
> Le 18/11/2013 13:08, Antonio Fortuny a écrit :
>>
>> Le 18/11/2013 12:19, Michael Van Canneyt a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Antonio Fortuny wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Folks.
>>>>
>>>> I'm a little bit annoyed by a boring specification in the fpc
>>>> package. When in a program I use the TIBConnection (along witha
>>>> transaction and a query), the compiled program looks for the local
>>>> libfbclient when establishing the connection.
>>>> So far so good. When I install the program in another Linux box,
>>>> running Firebird 2.1, the program complains that
>>>> "Can not load default Firebird clients ("libfbclient.so.2.5" or
>>>> "libgds.so" or "libfbembed.so.2.5")". Looks normal as this Linux
>>>> box uses Firebird 2.1
>>>> Is it possible to force what library should be used instead ? (as
>>>> UIB does)
>>>> Having a look inside the code, in ibase60 (lines 2680 and fw)
>>>> library names look fixed and looks like the Firebird version should
>>>> be fixed before using it.
>>>
>>> You can do 2 things:
>>>
>>> 1. use the TSQLDBLibraryLoader component from sqldblib (in trunk)
>>>
>>> 2. call
>>>    function InitialiseIBase60(Const LibraryName : AnsiString) :
>>> integer;
>> found it in ibase60dyn.pp --> ibase60.inc
>> before connecting to the DB:
>>     InitialiseIBase60('libfbclient.so');
> changing previous line to
>   InitialiseIBase60('./libfbclient.so');
> works.
>
> Thanks
>
> Antonio.
>
>> compile on one system (OpenSuse x86_64), copy to the target system
>> (Ubuntu x86_64)
>> target systemp library /usr/lib/libfbclient.so.2 copied in current
>> directory as libfbclient.so
>> then run and:
>> An unhandled exception occurred at $00000000004B544B :
>> EInOutError : Can not load Firebird client library "libfbclient.so".
>> Check your installation.
>>
>> any comment ?
>>
>> Antonio.
>>
>>> with the correct library name.
>>>
>>> Michael.
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>
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