Helen Borrie:

I can’t connect within the IDE or outside the IDE with the IDE closed and I don’t have the database file open in any management software and I’ve verified that no other software has the database open / locked using Process Explorer.

Regarding bitness, still not sure because I’ve read conflicting information but in other applications I develop where I use regular Firebird server on my Windows Server 2016 computer and develop 64bit application on my development computer I have the 64bit fbclient.dll in my application directory and I am able to check off Connected in the TFDConnection and be connected to the server. So it’s hard to know when so many different people are saying different things.

Re “I think it's a mistake to try and do a custom Firebird install for your early testing. Just unzip the whole thing and then go back later and get rid of the pieces you don't need” again so many people saying so many things; I’ve copied the contents of the unzipped Firebird x64 kit to my application directory (along with any sub-directories) and when that didn’t work I tried copying some of the files from the plugins directory to the application directory just to see if that would work and I still can’t get a connection.

eric.gueguiniat@...:

“FDConnection.Params.Database” = the full path to the fdb file and it’s not blank.

Karol Bieniaszewski

As I mentioned above, I copied the contents of the Firebird x64 kit to my application directory including any subdirectories but when I still couldn’t get a connection I tried copying some of the files from the plugins directory to my application directory just to see if that would work.