> Now I am preparing to move to Firebird 2.1, and I discovered that doing the
> same with the new DLLs does not work at all.
>
> Of course in my development environment it is okay, as I installed the
> entire Firebird software (server etc...), but not on my clients.
>
> When they run the exe, they directly get an error popup message (I translate
> from the french) : "DLL Interbase gds32.dll not found in the path. Please
> install Interbase to use this functionality"
>
> I am completely stucked with this message, because the DLL is there (in the
> exe directory).
>
> I have already looked via google to find more info about this problem but
> nothing useful until now.
>
> I hope I do not have to tell to my end-users to install the entire Firebird.
> They are all simple PC users and just copying files as explained previously
> is what they can do.
>
> What is the magic behind the "normal" installation that make it works on my
> PC ?

Please, read the "MSVC8 run-time. Again" topic from 17 October in fb-devel list and try this dll's

http://www.firebirdsql.org/download/snapshot_builds/win/Firebird-2.1.1.17910-2_Win32.Dlls.NoManifest.zip

Regards,
Vlad