Thankyou marius and Thomas,

I have finally found time to play with this and I have quite quickly and easily
got my database connection working with this driver.

This is fantastic. Now that the QT license has changed, its onwards and
upwards with firebird on linux for me.

Peter.

On Monday 19 January 2009 10:20:18 pm marius popa wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Thomas Steinmaurer
>
> <ts@...> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > pretty off-topic here, but IMHO even interesting for Firebird users,
> > because Firebird/InterBase can be accessed via the QT framework.
> >
> > Formerly licensed under GPL and a commercial license for closed source
> > development, releasing QT under LGPL is a very "interesting" move from
> > Nokia.
> >
> > Especially for QT-based embedded devices, Firebird might be an
> > interesting option for an embeddable database, if:
> >
> > * there is a stable Firebird specific (not the current InterBase one,
> > even if it might work now) QT SQL driver/module implementation available
> > * Firebird is cross-compilable for ARM, ... (something which has been
> > discussed on firebird-devel from time to time. AFAIK, there is a private
> > ARM port of Firebird somewhere)
>
> I have tested and driver seems to work (amd64), maybe later i will
> check on an nokia maemo
>
> Installing qt4.5 with Firebird support
> and running the db demo (tested on ubuntu jaunty but it should work on
> intrepid too)
>
> I assume firebird2.1 installed also the devel related packages
>
>
> I use the snapshot usually (I use the webkit for arora) but you can
> download an more stable package from qtsoftware
>
> http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/preview-qt-4.5
>
>
> git clone --depth 1 git://labs.trolltech.com/qt-snapshot
>
>
> export PATH="/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.5.0/bin:$PATH"
> cd qt-snapshot
> git pull
> ln -s /usr/lib/libfbclient.so.2.1.1 /usr/lib/libgds.so
> ./configure -no-accessibility -no-exceptions -no-qt3support -nomake
> examples -nomake demos -plugin-sql-ibase -v
> make && sudo make install
>
>
> i use qt-creator to open an demo for sql
>
> http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2009/01/qt-creator-is-now-open-source-here-is.ht
>ml
>
>
> open the sqlbrowser.pro from
>
> qt-snapshot/demos/sqlbrowser
>
> Compile it and press run
>
> driver QIBASE
> then fill the db name with
> /var/lib/firebird/2.1/data/employee.fdb
> username:SYSDBA
> password:********
>
> I was inspired by this thread from ubuntu forums
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6577210#post6577210
>
> And here is the screenshot
>
>
>
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NXe-USYSZmU/SXRgDKJjjZI/AAAAAAAABPY/hZ7d3xpKvfg/s
>1600-h/qt_sql_browser.png
>
> > Ah well, just letting you know ... ;-)
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards,
> > Thomas Steinmaurer
> > LogManager Series - Logging/Auditing Suites supporting
> > InterBase, Firebird, Advantage Database, MS SQL Server and
> > NexusDB V2
> > Upscene Productions
> > http://www.upscene.com
> > My blog:
> > http://blog.upscene.com/thomas/
> >
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