| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Missing Embedded FB Libs on Mac |
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| Author | Helen Borrie |
| Post date | 2009-06-06T02:45:48Z |
At 12:24 PM 6/06/2009, you wrote:
On a regular POSIX install, therefore, you would connect to the employee database using
/opt/firebird/empbuild/employee.fdb
For your MacOSX Classic install, you'll need to figure out the path (as I also don't know the layout of the install on Mac).
./heLen
>Hi All,Windows is the only platform that has a "separate" download kit for embedded. For the POSIX platforms, the library libfbembed.* is the embedded client/server that is installed with Classic, as long as you use a truly local (non-network) path to the database file, viz. libfbembed.so on regular POSIX, I can't remember what suffix is used for shared libs on Mac.
>
>I've installed Classic Server from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/firebird/FirebirdCS-2.1.2-18118-i686.pkg.zip, but I cannot find the embedded libs.
On a regular POSIX install, therefore, you would connect to the employee database using
/opt/firebird/empbuild/employee.fdb
For your MacOSX Classic install, you'll need to figure out the path (as I also don't know the layout of the install on Mac).
>Do I have to install from source to get the embedded libs? If so, how do remove the Firebird version installed from the pkg.Not relevant.
./heLen