> >
> > That's the ticket. Seems a shame to have to install these libs with
> > the upgrade of a client (thought it was just the server).
>
> If I understand Paul Reeves' post, it is because they (the Firebird
> project) use VS2005 to build now instead of VS2003. This allowed them
> to provide a Win64 build.
>
> Vista and Server 2008 ship with these dlls installed btw, although it
> is a shame to lose this simplicity for older installs. Hopefully a
> compromise can be found.
>
> Adam
>

FURTHER TESTING....
I can now say that some machines WITHOUT these 3 libs (msvcr80.dll,
msvcp80.dll & msvcm80.dll) run the fblient.dll (v2.1) just fine. Some
machines DO NOT. They return an exception "fbclient library not installed".
Why?
How do I know when they are needed?
Alan