Hi Adam

I ran the instclient file with options ' i g' which gave me the message
"Existing GDS32.DLL (newer version) found.
You can force replacing the DLL with -f[orce] switch.
Though this could break some other InterBase(R) or Firebird installation."

I checked the Windows/system32 dir and BDS\4.0\bin dir of Borland but
couldn't find the gds32.dll file

What am I not doing right ?

I realise that porting the application so that it is transaction aware will
take a long time, and for me to change all the pages which use the current
BDE queries/etc to IBX components perhaps even longer. At this stage, I
think if I can establish connectivity and design the reports that may be
enough for my client....(lack of funding).

Gaurav

On 2/2/06, Adam <s3057043@...> wrote:
>
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Gaurav Sood
> <sood.gaurav@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Adam
> >
> > Well, if the only Free components out there are MDO and FBLIB, I
> guess MDO
> > would be the logical choice...or IBExpress ? Would you recommend
> going to
> > IBX as it is already installed within Delphi and there is
> documentation ?
>
> JvUIB is also free (it is part of Jedi, just checked). We were
> already using a custom written component that wrapped TQuery, so
> porting it to TIBQuery was 10 minutes work, of course rewriting the
> modules so they were transaction aware took a lot longer.
>
> I have had no problems with IBX, although be aware it is maintained
> by Borland for Interbase, it just happens to work with Firebird
> (including FB 2 beta). The client library needs to be renamed to
> gds32.dll (instead of fbclient.dll) using the instclient.exe tool.
> This convinces the IBX components it is safe to use the client
> library. Many of the other components allow you to specify the client
> library, but I can't advise you either way on the others because I
> haven't used them too much.
>
> Basically with IBX, you need TIBDatabase, TIBTransaction, and
> TIBQuery to get started. Just avoid commitretaining (use normal
> commit where possible).
>
> Adam
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