Hi again,

Just to follow up on this... I uninstalled Firebird from the Windows 98SE VMWare image, deleted the c:\Program Files\Firebird\* directory, restarted the image, and then ran my application and it worked. So obviously I am missing a step (or more) that the Firebird installation did and now my application is running.

Regards,
Diego

On Monday, January 10, 2005, at 10:46PM, Diego Barros <dbarros@...> wrote:

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>Hi Helen,
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>I have tried as you suggested and I am still not able to get the embedded server version of my application deployed. I still get the error message "..." when I run myapp.exe.
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>On my development machine, after following your instructions, I am now able to run myapp.exe on the development machine and it is using the embedded server. I checked this by making sure I only had one copy of gds32.dll on my machine, and that was located where myapp.exe is. There is one copy of fbembed.dll, but that's where I extracted the contents of the Firebird Embedded distribution, and it's not in the application path.
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>By running "DLL Explorer" I was able to check that when I ran myapp.exe it was using gds32.dll, which is located in the same directory as myapp.exe.
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>The gds32.dll that I used is fbembed.dll renamed.
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>After I installed Firebird 1.5.2 on the clean Windows 98 SE VMWare image I was then able to run my application. What is the Firebird install doing that I am not?
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>BTW I am not using a firebird.conf or aliases.conf file with my application. I am, however, deploying firebird.msg.
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>Any help would be greatly appreciate.
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>Regards,
>Diego
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>On Sunday, January 09, 2005, at 10:50PM, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
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>>At 09:56 PM 9/01/2005 +1100, you wrote:
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>>>Hi all,
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>>>I have an application that I want to use the FB embedded server with. I am
>>>testing it on a clean install of Windows 98 SE. The application's
>>>directory is "C:\myapp\app.exe". In the "C:\myapp\" folder I have the
>>>following files:
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>>>firebird.msg
>>>gds32.dll
>>>myapp.exe
>>>myapp.fdb
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>>>When I run myapp.exe I get the following error:
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>>>"InterBase library gds32.dll not found in the path. Please install
>>>Interbase to use this functionality."
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>>>What else do I need to do to get this working? I have tried to get this
>>>working by copying gds32.dll to into "c:\windows\system",
>>>"c:\windows\system32" and in to "c:\windows\".
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>>>BTW I have also set the database component's DatabaseName property to
>>>"C:\myapp\myapp.fdb" instead of prefixing it with "localhost" as I do on
>>>my development machine.
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>>>The application is written in Delphi 7 using the standard Delphi IB
>>>components.
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>>This is a problem with trying to use embedded in the Delphi IDE with
>>Borland's components.
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>>The only workaround I know of is the following.
>>In the appdir, temporarily rename the embedded server back to fbembed.dll.
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>>Then install the full Firebird server engine on your development machine
>>and have it install the "compatibility" version of the regular client in
>>the system directory. See
>>http://firebird.sourceforge.net.index.php?op=faq#q0013.dat
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>>http://firebird.sourceforge.net.index.php?op=faq#q0016.dat
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>>Compile the application in this environment.
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>>Once the app is compiled, detach everything and rename fbembed.dll (in the
>>app directory) back to gds32.dll. The app should then run fine with the
>>embedded engine.
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>Cheers,
>Diego
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Cheers,
Diego