Hi Helen

I havn't trimmed the message as someone else may find it useful and I
thought it would be good to close the thread.


My customer has copied and renamed fblient.dll to gds32.dll and into
his windows/system directory so far this works.

I am about to give him the following instructions ( My app is the only
firbird app on his machines)

1/ Uninstall Firebird 1.5.0 xxxx
2/ Search for and delete all gds32.dll 's found
3/ Install Firbird 1.5.1 - checking the boxes for copy the client
library to <system> dir.
4/ Check generate client library as gds32.dll for legacy app support.

This should cover all eventualities of apples , oranges and also the
pear factor.

Rgds

Peter

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...> wrote:
> At 07:35 AM 10/08/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I am having problems with an application which is stable on my
system
> >but has stack problems on my customers machine.
> >
> >I notice using madexcept that the machine has an interbase 6
gds32.dll
> >loaded.
> >
> >modules:
> >00400000 ODIN.EXE 1.3.1.5 C:\PROGRAMMER\PREPAY
> >06510000 AWHK32.DLL 8.1.0.188 C:\PROGRAMMER\PCANYWHERE
> >10000000 GDS32.DLL 6.3.1.4481 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
> >
> >I ahave asked my customer to upgrade the dll the the firebird
> >1.5.xxxxx version but would I expect to get stack exception errors
> >from this ?
> >
> >I was under the impression that from Firebird 1.5 gds32.dll was no
> >longer used and that fbclient.dll was now used ?
> >
> >Is it the case that fbclient.dll now needs to be in the
windows/system
> >directory and all gds32.dll's should be deleted ?
>
> If the client is connecting to a database on a Firebird 1.5 server,
it
> needs a Firebird 1.5 client. If you have the IB 6 gds32.dll being
used as
> the client, of course you are going to have stack exceptions. You
can't
> get orange juice from an apple!!
>
> The Fb 1.5 client is officially called fbclient.dll and it lives by
default
> in the bin directory of the server installation. Unless you modify
IBO, it
> expects a client named gds32.dll located either in the application
> directory (i.e. where your exe is) or in the system path.
>
> So, if you don't want to change IBO, then change the library. For
IBX, you
> have to run a program (also in the bin dir) named instclient.exe.
For IBO,
> all you need to do is copy fbclient.dll to the client machine
(application
> or system 32) and rename it as gds32.dll. Of course, if the IB6 (or
any
> other) version of gds32.dll is there, you'll have to move, delete or
rename
> it first. If you find you can't do that, it means that the library
is
> already loaded, so you'll have to reboot the machine first.
>
> Helen