> We have an application distribute in CD using Embedded version of Firebird 2.5. We can create a read_only mode database using gfix command line utilities.
>
> My question is can I use gfix -mode read_only db without full version of firebird server install ?

The command-line utilities should be fine with Embedded, especially with
2.5, because the Embedded engine does not need an exclusive lock on the
database file anymore. The embedded library must be renamed to
fbclient.dll though, because the command-line utilities look for
fbclient.dll. Place e.g. gfix into the same directory as the renamed
embedded library and this should work fine.


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