On Sun, 18 May 2003 12:13:06 +0000 (UTC), mp527 wrote:

> Hi, Anyone running the FB embeded version on Win98?
> I can't seem to get it to work.
> I keep getting "Interbase Client GDS32.dll is not installed"
> I just have the fbembedded dll (renamed gds32.dll) in the same directory
> as my exe. It works perfect on W2k and XP.
> I even used Jasons IB_SESSION511.pas unit to force the name of the client
> dll to fbembed.dll and it still refused to work on win98.
> using the IB_Session511 unit works great on win2k and XP by the way.

See Tony Cadutos posts (4 posts in 2 threads: "FB embedded dll on Win98
problems" and "FB embedded problems") in sourceforge.firebird-devel (I've
tried to copy them, see below) - maybe that will help.

Regards
Aage J.

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#1: [12:49]]
Is there any known issues with using the embedded version on win98 second
edition?
I keep getting a error message that states....."GDS32.DLL is not installed",
and it clearly is installed.
I even tried moving it to the system dir and it still does not work.

#2: [13:44]
It seems if you have GDS32.dll or FBclient.dll already in your path(in
system32), the embedded dll will not load.
What happens is you get a database unavailable error. If you remove
gds32.dll from the system32 dir and reboot all works as expected.
Also as a reminder the fb embedded does not seem to work at all on win98

#3: [16:03]
FYI,
I solved this by changing the library name in the IBObjects sourcecode to
fbembed.dll.
It seems there are some conflicts with the normal GDS32.dll.
I still can't get it working on Win98 though.

#4: [20:18]
duh, has same dependencies as the full server, i just had to add latest
msvcp60.dll to my setup and all works fine on win9x
Maybe this info could be added to the readme for the embedded server.