Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: RC8 and IBXAdmin troubles
Author Olivier Mascia
Dear,

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:42:23 +1100,
Alan McDonald wrote :

> > Yes, but your confusing some things.
> > IBX *needs* the client library named gds32.dll. Point.
> > If you re-install a machine and only provide fbclient.dll, you can put
> > it whereever you want, IBX won't work.
> > It needs gds32.dll.
>
> I said fbclient.dll was renamed gds32.dll (repeat - renamed to GDS32.dll)-
> the version I stated behaved the way I stated. IBX Admin will not work
> against gds32.dll when the versions are as I have stated.
> Alan

Alan, it is well-known that just renaming FBCLIENT.DLL to GDS32.DLL
does not work with IBX. That gives you a GDS32.DLL tagged 1.5 and
there were reports that IBX didn't like that.

Using instclient.exe will give you a GDS32.DLL tagged 6.3 and that
one will be accepted by IBX.

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Best Regards,
Olivier Mascia
http://www.ibpp.org