At 02:24 PM 13/11/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>Guys,
>
>I've got a D7 app hitting a FireBird 1.5 RC7 server (Red Hat Linux
>9.0). My development machine is WinXP Pro, on which the app runs
>perfectly, and itself is running FB 1.5 RC7.
>
>My app consists of a single .EXE. I copied the .EXE and GSD32.DLL
>(renamed from FB 1.5's FBCLIENT.DLL) to another WinXP box, and the
>app runs fine.
>
>I copied the same 2 files to a Win98SE box, and although the program
>starts, it will not connect to FB. After doing a little reading of
>the FB 1.5 release notes, I copied FB 1.5's original FBCLIENT.DLL
>and GDS32.DLL (stub program!) to the Win98's \windows\system folder,
>and then set the reg key as described in the FB 1.5 release notes.
>Now the program crashes immediately on startup.
>
>What am I missing here? What do I need to get this app to run on
>Win98?

Do you have Msvcp60.dll on the machine? Look in Firebird's \bin dir.

windows\system folder? the %system% dir on win98 is \windows, I believe.

Also, read the file in the /doc subdir named
README.Win32LibraryInstallation.txt. It's ok to have the gds32.dll in the
%system% dir but fbclient.dll has to be in the \bin subdir of the fb
installation

'Course, you just might be the bad luck guy who's first to field test RC7
on Win98. The client bits and bobs changed a lot between RC6 and RC7.

HB

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