--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, "russellbelding" <russell@b...>
wrote:

> Thanks for your note Artur
>
> --- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Artur Anjos <artur@a...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Russel,
> >
> >
> > russellbelding wrote:
> >
> > > (snip)
> > > In the FB 1.5 release notes (ver 1.08) the program

instclient.exe

> is
> > > discussed. This discussion seems to me to be tentative and I

draw

> no
> > > conclusions from it. However, after installing FB 1.5.0.4302
> server
> > > taking the default options, I observed a GDS32.DLL was

installed

> in
> > > the system32 folder and this GDS32.DLL properties say it is for
> FB
> > > 1.5. Better yet this file allows my application to work with FB
> 1.5
> > > and IBO 4.3Aa. FBCLIENT.DLL was installed only in

...Firebird_1_5

> > > \bin. (Is that intended? I would have thought it would also be
> > > installed in the system32 folder.)
> >
> > Yes. That's the default.
> >
> > > In my software package I have no client install. Program files
> are
> > > copied to a client PC from a file server, and the gds32.dll

file

> is
> > > copied to be in the same folder as my main executable file.
> >
> > I use this method also. What I do is simple rename fbclient.dll
> from
> > /bin to gds32.dll and send it with my install.
>
> Is a solution this simple? If so, wonderful. The FB 1.5 release

notes

> say the instclient.exe program changes the version string to 6.3

and

> looking at its version string it has been changed to 6.3.0.4306
> whereas the FBCLIENT version string of 1.5.0.4306. If you are using
> this only for IBO, perhaps IBO does not check the version string?
>
> Regards
>
> Russell

Correct. IBO looks for gds32.dll. A lot of apps/comps (called "legacy"
apps in English?) have hard-coded this name, and therefore Fb 1.5 has
included a SPECIAL gds32.dll which only redirects calls to
fbclient.dll.
It's not "akward support" of IBO.