Thanks Markus, Those were the problems I had. I read what seemed like conflicting things to try (I think it was in that document you mention). Renaming that dll didn't help. I gave up. I'll check into it again. I was using the ZEOS Delphi components on the client side. I could never get past the problem with the dll it was supposed to talk to. DJS
Markus Ostenried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 16:17 Sunday, 27.03.2005 -0800, David Smith wrote: >I was interested in using Firebird but also found it confusing. I couldn't >configure the client driver because it was always complaining about this >or that file being missing. It was easy to install the Delphi client >objects but they didn't work. I couldn't find any documentation to help >with it either. It really needs some kind of "Getting Started" type of >help file. What do you mean by client driver? AFAIK you only need gds32.dll in your app dir on the client side. And with Delphi components you have to be carefull. I think IBX is Borland only and therefore is not guaranteed to work with Firebird. Better use IB Objects (somewhat complex, but does everything you can think of) or FIB Plus. The Firebird people have recently renamed the client lib from gds23.dll to fbclient.dll to avoid problems with the Interbase library. But IBX only looks for the old filename because Borland has no interest in being compatible with Firebird. A guide to Firebird can be found here: http://www.firebirdsql.com/index.php?op=guide On this page select the Quick Start Guide. If you have troubles with Firebird just post your question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'm sure you'll get plenty of help. I'm reading this group for a few years now and I have to say that all the Firebird developers and long time users try really hard to solve all problems and to explain how things work. HTH, Markus ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
