Hello everybody,

In the \doc folder of a Firebird installation on Windows I found two files,
namely README.Win32LibraryInstallation.txt and installation_readme.txt.

The former apparently refers to Firebird 1.5 (there's no further mention of
the version it refers to in the document); the latter explicitly states that
it refers to installation matters concerning FB 1.5.3.

It reads that FB can be installed from a batch file, and there's a list of
optional command line switches that the installer accepts.
Among them, the /NOGDS32 one allegedly causes the client library not to be
copied in the system folder.

Am I allowed to assume that if I don't supply that switch, the gds32.dll
file will be installed on the system folder?
Does the "client library" refer to fbclient.dll, even though the switch name
mentions GDS32?

Given that the Win32 specific readme says that "It is inteded that future
versions of Firebird will not attempt to install gds32.dll into the <system>
directory and ultimately it will be completely removed from the
distribution", I wonder whether the time to use instclient.exe has already
come...

Can anyone clear this doubt?

Thanks in advance!
Rony