> At 07:40 PM 6/03/2006, you wrote:
> >How to detect which client library (fbclient or fbembed) is currently
> >loaded. Any Firebird API to call ?
>
> LOL! the client library *is* the API. So - no, there isn't an API
> call that says "am I really me?" The API is identical, regardless of
> which client library you're actually using. It might even be
> libfbclient.so on a Linux client, but the API is still the same.
>
>
> >Actually the goal is to make a standalone application (eg. with
> >Delphi/FIB/IBO) and want to limit it only to use embedded client
> >library. How to know that the loaded library is the correct
> >fbembed.dll instead of fbclient.dll (for eg. user has renamed the
> >fbclient.dll into fbembed.dll)
>
> You don't. Even your application can only look in the application
> directory and make sure a file of the right name (and perhaps size)
> is there before the LoadLibrary call.
>
> You have to trust the user not to mess around with the
> installation. If not, can your user be trusted not to delete the
> database file? Or the application executable?

Wouldn't "embedded" return "Firebird 1.5 Embedded" or something
like that for the server string?

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