On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Milan Babuskov <milanb@...> 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 ;)

well you can run firebird on wine too :)

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