I need to access files on the Firebird DBMS using Javascript on Windows,
and node.js seemed like a good way to go. I'm new to Javascript, though, so
please bear with me.
After installing node.js, I downloaded a project called
node-firebird-libfbclient-master/firebird. Then I created a one-table test
database and attempted to access it with the following sample code
(fbtest.js):
var fb = require("./firebird");
sys = require("sys");
var con = fb.createConnection();
con.connectSync('test.fdb','sysdba','masterkey','');
con.querySync("insert into test (id,name) values (5, 'new one')");
var res = con.querySync("select * from test");
con.commitSync();
var rows = res.fetchSync("all",true);
console.log(sys.inspect(rows));
I had no project specifically named "firebird", so I changed the first line
to the following:
var fb = require("./node-firebird-libfbclient-master/firebird");
This was the result when I ran "node fbtest.js" in the console window.
module.js:340
throw err;
^
Error: Cannot find module './build/Release/binding'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object.<anonymous>
(C:\JavaScript\node-firebird-libfbclient-master\firebird.js:1:77)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
This was my introduction to the concept of the "binding.gyp" file. I
discovered that this firebird module was using the older, wscript-based
build system.
So I installed python 2.75 (is this the correct version and then attempted
to create an appropriate binding.gyp file. After looking at a few examples,
I created this:
*{
"targets": [
{
"target_name": "binding",
'sources': [
'src/fb-bindings.cc',
'src/fb-bindings-blob.cc',
'src/fb-bindings-connection.cc',
'src/fb-bindings-eventblock.cc',
'src/fb-bindings-fbeventemitter.cc',
'src/fb-bindings-fbresult.cc',
'src/fb-bindings-statement.cc',
]
}
]
}
In the node-firebird-libfbclient-master directory, I ran "node-gyp
configure" and it succeeded.
However, I still have the same error. And I can see that there's not even a
"Release" directory under "build", so it can't possibly work.
I'm a long-time C++ programmer, and the Javascript way of doing things
still seems counter-intuitive to me. Is there a guide somewhere to creating
a proper "binding.gyp" file, so I can get this thing working?
Thanks!
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