| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] How to install system wide fbembed.dll on Windows? |
|---|---|
| Author | Mark Rotteveel |
| Post date | 2014-10-04T15:37:40Z |
On 4-10-2014 12:05, Reinier Olislagers reinierolislagers@...
[firebird-support] wrote:
not on a 64 bit system, the 64 bit dlls go into **System32**.
fbembed.dll is essentially a Firebird server, it has more dependencies
than fbclient.dll. This includes the icu libraries. As a simplification:
you need all files in the embedded distribution (you could leave out
some of the files, but that might give problems if you use unicode
collations).
You shouldn't put embedded in any system folder like Windows\System32
(or Windows\SysWoW64 if you use 32 bit embedded). You normally put it
either in the folder of the application using embedded, or add its
location on the PATH (although that might sometimes cause problems
depending on how the application resolves its dependencies).
and avoid folders that are under UAC-protection, because - for example -
writing to firebird.log in protected folders (like Program Files,
Windows, etc) requires that the program runs with elevated rights,
otherwise they are written to the virtual store in your user profile
which can give its own headaches.
Note that deleting the msvcrt80 runtime and related files from the
embedded folder may be possible to resolve problems if the runtime is
also installed in the system itself.
Mark
--
Mark Rotteveel
[firebird-support] wrote:
> Windows 7 x64.SysWoW64 is **not** for 64 bit dlls, but for 32 bit dlls. Believe it or
>
> I've installed the 64 bit client version without problem, checked copy
> fbclient.dll to system directory.
> Ok, now client-server applications work.
>
> However: copying fbembed.dll to system32/syswow64 directories gave
> errors: icuuc30.dll not found. This seems strange as fbclient.dll in the
> same directory works without problems?!?
not on a 64 bit system, the 64 bit dlls go into **System32**.
fbembed.dll is essentially a Firebird server, it has more dependencies
than fbclient.dll. This includes the icu libraries. As a simplification:
you need all files in the embedded distribution (you could leave out
some of the files, but that might give problems if you use unicode
collations).
You shouldn't put embedded in any system folder like Windows\System32
(or Windows\SysWoW64 if you use 32 bit embedded). You normally put it
either in the folder of the application using embedded, or add its
location on the PATH (although that might sometimes cause problems
depending on how the application resolves its dependencies).
> (An earlier attempt to copy over fbembed.dll + allPut the entire content of the embedded zip kit in a folder on the PATH,
> icu*.dlls+firebird.msg etc did work but lead to errors with LibreOffice
> not being able to load the correct msvcrt80 runtime library.)
>
> Can you have a system-wide fbembed.dll? How do you install it?
and avoid folders that are under UAC-protection, because - for example -
writing to firebird.log in protected folders (like Program Files,
Windows, etc) requires that the program runs with elevated rights,
otherwise they are written to the virtual store in your user profile
which can give its own headaches.
Note that deleting the msvcrt80 runtime and related files from the
embedded folder may be possible to resolve problems if the runtime is
also installed in the system itself.
Mark
--
Mark Rotteveel