--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@...> wrote:

>
> > >
> > > 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
>

You can try to view dependencies with Process Explorer
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx