Larry,

b> On my PC, Microsoft's dynamic linker insists on using
b> D:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin/fbclient.dll.

there is a reason why the embedded server is called differently than
the standard client.
If you have any way to tell your library to use "fbembed.dll" instead
of "fbclient.dll" then I think you should do it and get past all this.

I don't know why people keep on inflicting pain to themselves by
renaming things and making software think that a file is another.
It looks like masochism to me. And Windows' DLL loader won't help you
at all - it's designed to give headaches to people.

Ciao
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Nando Dessena
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