10.12.2015 23:56, Mark Kendall wrote: > I’ve just been trying out compression with Firebird 3 rc1. It took a > long time to get it working on a Windows 7 64 bit machine until I > discovered a post about whether or not zlib should be compiled into > Firebird or a separate dll should be used. From that snippet I guessed > I needed to download zlib source and compile a 64 bit zlib1.dll as there > is no official windows 64 bit zlib1.dll available. Once that was done I > could then connect via ISQL using compression, yay! > > A little bit more work putting a 32 bit zlib1.dll into the client > machine and our Delphi app could connect via compression as well > (verified by doing wireshark captures with compression on/off). > > Looks like great improvements simply going from FB2.5 (protocol 12 I > think) to FB3 (protocol13) even before compression is applied! > > Are the zlib dlls supposed to be included with Firebird or is the > documentation supposed to contain a note saying that they need to be > obtained separately (or did I just miss this?)
It should be included. I see zlib1.dll present in snapshot builds but, wierdly enough, not in the official RC1 packages. To be investigated. Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
