On Thursday 08 January 2004 15:29, landydan wrote:

>
> I want to write a C application that can communicate with the embedded
> version of the Firebird server, but I would like to avoid having to
> use the special pre-processor that seems to be required in the sample
> files provided.

Why? It is a fast and effective way to generate the api calls.

Is there a way to make database calls directly from

> C or C++?

There are also examples in the same directory of calling the api directly.

And there is also ibpp (a sourceforge project) which is a C++ wrapper
around the Firebird C api.

> If so, is there some setup I need to do (like establishing
> an ODBC data source or something)?
>

Or you could use ODBC.

> I am hoping for a situation similar to SQLITE, where you just make
> SQL calls against a database file without a database server that
> requires a separate installation.
>
> Is there a place I can find an example of this?
>

I don't know if anyone has done any specific examples for the embedded
server because it isn't really any different to accessing a remote
server. The main practical difference is that you are loading the
embedded server library, not the normal firebird client library.
Internally everything else should be the same.


Paul
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