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

>
> At 12:24 PM 6/06/2009, you wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>

Thanks for the info. But what I meant to say was that after installing the pkg there are no libfbembed.* files (sudo find / -iname "*fbemb*" returns nothing).

C.