Milan Babuskov wrote:

> Giovanni Premuda wrote:
>>> VC6, 7, 8 and 9 CRTs are not compatible with each other. It is not
>>> recommended (read: don't do it) to mix them at runtime. For example,
>>> when memory areas are allocated by a CRT and freed by another may end
>>> to crashes.
>> fbclient.dll and gds32.dll certainly do not depend on the CRT version of
>> the application, they dont' even depend on the application using a C
>> Runtime Library.
>
> Erm, fbclient in Firebird 2.1 does. Please see firebird-devel archives.
> To quote the most recent message on the issue by Alan McDonald:
> "All FB 2.1 binaries requires MSVC8 run-time dlls on *any* OS."
> Obviously, he meant, any _Microsoft_ OS ;)

The client needs the correct run time libraries, but will it still be
accessible from legacy applications? Since this discussion started I've been
checking what I have got installed - and of cause it's the Linux machines that
have 2.1 on :(
All the windows machines still talk too them, but I've not got the latest
windows client here everywhere since FB1.5 and FB2 share the test system.
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After checking the windows machine with FB2.1 on I've confirmed that this has
a VC8 based client, but it works perfectly with all of the legacy stuff and
with the last PHP5.2.x ( and PHP5.3 with php_interbase ) snapshots that I have.

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