Eric,

Could your problem with PREPARE be that you have not defined sqlString within
a EXEC SQL BEGIN/END DECLARE SECTION block? The Interbase Embedded SQL Guide
(http://www.ibphoenix.com/downloads/60EmbedSQL.zip on page 23) says that
InterBase supports it for compatibility with other implementations. Might it
be required for FB 1.5?

Thad

On Wednesday 03 March 2004 12:41, Eric Boyajian wrote:
>...
> I think you misunderstand. The program does not crash at the
> PREPARE, it simply fails to prepare the SQL select statement and the
> FB 1.5 server (API?) returns a failure code (-901). The PREPARE
> should succeed and return a 0 (zero) in the isc_status vector and
> SQLCODE. Are you printing the value of SQLCODE after the
> isc_embed_dsql_prepare()? What is it?
>...