At 10:46 AM 18/02/2004 +1100, you wrote:

>Is there any way to get an ADO->ODBC connection to a FB database to work
>while an old IB gds32.dll is in the Windows system directory?
>
>Our Delphi app uses a direct IBO connection to one FB database and an
>ADO->ODBC connection (using the IBPhoenix Firebird ODBC driver) to another
>FB database. To support other applications IB must still be installed with
>the IB gds32.dll in the Windows system directory.
>
>For direct connectivity to the first FB database placing the FB gds32.dll in
>the application directory is sufficient. For the ADO->ODBC connection we
>can't stop it from using the gds32.dll in the Windows system directory and
>the application cannot connect to the second database (it hard crashes in
>fact with a "Send report to MS..." dialog in WinXP).
>
>Perhaps if the ODBC driver were to use fbclient.dll directly then all would
>be ok?
>
>Any ideas?

Yes. Use the latest RC version and read the document
README_library_install.txt in the /doc directory, as well as the release
notes. It always amazes me that some of you people are trying to run beta
software without keeping it up to date or bothering to read the documentation.

You might also consider checking with the firebird-odbc-devel list, as to
whether the latest version of the driver actually does support fbclient.dll
by name, if it is correctly located in the /bin directory.

/heLen