Hi Helen,

Thank you very much for your reply. I will investigate to see if I
can use IBPP with XCode/Cocoa/Objective-C environment under which I
am developing my system. Firebird is a wonderful database and
should/could make a big impact on MAC OS X. There is'nt much on that
platform as far as database is concerned.

Thanks again for the pointer.
Chris.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
wrote:

>
> At 04:36 PM 19/01/2008, you wrote:
> >I have been using Firebird 2.0.3 with .NET very well, and very

very

> >happy. Now I need to do a fairly medium size database system on

latest

> >MAC OS (Leopard).
> >
> >Does Firebird interface very well with XCode and Cocoa?
>
> Don't know about this but isn't XCode intended for use with an ODBC

driver? There are Firebird ODBC drivers for POSIX platforms. And
Cocoa is C++? I would be surprised if you couldn't get the answers
you need by subscribing to the IBPP discussion list,
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibpp-discuss . IBPP
itself was developed by a shop that uses Macs.

>
> >What interface shold I use for the development. For example,

there is a QuickLite middleware for SQLite. .NET provider for C#
interface with Firebird.

> >What do I need to use so that I can use Firebird with XCode and

Cocoa.

>
> An interface, by its very nature, works in two directions. On one

side it communicates with the database engine, on the other it
communicates with a client programming environment. So - the driver
you choose depends on what your client programming environment is.

>
> >Do I need to write raw C code to develop on MAC?
>
> You could if you wanted to. ;-) Any of the drivers "wraps"

Firebird's application programming interface (API) - that's the
dynamic library fbclient or libfbclient (sorry, don't know the
extension suffix for dynlibs/shared objects on Mac) that comes in the
Firebird kit. If you really want to do it the hard way, you can
program in C directly to the API without using a wrapper layer at all.

>
> >I looked around on the Internet but found no information. Any

pointer

> >will be highly appreciated.
>
> Hope this helps you to find some useful links. Firebird hasn't (so

far) had a "Mac community" but the latest porting efforts should be a
positive step. I hope that, sooner rather than later, the Mac
application developers will want to get their act together and take
up my long-standing invitation to start up a Mac section at our
website.

>
> > Would Paul Beach or Alex Peshkov have any information or advise?
>
> Paul and Alex did the latest v.1.5.5 and 2.0.3 ports for both Mac

platforms. The sad news (for you) is that neither of them is a Mac
developer. Both are UNIX/Linux men. Alex works full-time in the
core Firebird project, which is in C++. Paul suffers from demonic
urges to port Firebird to abstruse platforms. :-)

>
> That the recent (and ongoing) MacOSX porting frenzy happened at all

was made possible by the donation of a Macbook to the Firebird
project by the same benefactor who developed IBPP and gave it to the
world for free use - so, if C++ is your game, that looks at least
like a good starting place...

>
> ./heLen
>