--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@...>
wrote:

>
> > Not the interbase one, but rather the version of gds32.dll

created by

> > the Firebird Installer or by instclient.exe. Basically it is the

same

> > as fbclient.dll, but it tricks the IBX components into connecting
> > happily to Firebird.
>
> Adam,
> the gds versioning to which you refer is not required by the IBX

components

> at runtime. It's only checked by the designtime packages during IDE

load.

> IBX based applications will run fine against fbclient renamed to

gds32.dll

> without the tricky versioning. IBX design time packages can also be

changed

> (source) to ignore the version check during load.
> alan
>

Good to know, thanks

Adam