Hi Lester

Thanks for replying. I considered the FB support list but the error seemed
to be very IBO so I thought this would be better ;-)

I don't know if the new gds32 is backward compatible with IB5.6 so I'm not
sure if I could only use the new one (I also have remnants of BDE which I
want to keep working for a while).

Problem is I cant use the new one at all because Delphi cant load the IBO
packages when its in place.

Regards
Paul

>
> Paul Hope wrote:
>
> > Anybody have an idea what's going on . . . .
>
> You will get better help on running Firebird with Interbase on the
> firebird-support list ;)
>
> > I'm finally getting to convert my customers to FB :)))
> >
> > IBO version 4.3.Aa, gds32.dll version 6.3.0.0
> >
> > If I put gds32 in the app folder then it runs fine. Problem is I cant
> do
> > any design time stuff in Delphi because it uses the client in system32.
> >
> > So I wrote a little batch file to swap the gds32 files around in
> >
> > system32 hoping to then start D6 in IB or FB mode. Problem is that D6
> > throws out all the IBO packages when it starts with the FB dll in place.
> >
> > The error is 'unable to locate DLL import isc_array_gen_sdl'
> >
> > How can I make this work?
> Delphi6 expects a gds32.dll, so trying to run two different engines that
> use the same file is the problem. IBO *CAN* be configured to use the
> newer fbclient.dll in place of gds32.dll, but trying to run both of them
> will cause problems.
>
> I WAS working quite happily into Interbase using the firebird client
> after installing the firebird gds32.dll into system32 ( the installer
> has an option for that ) but I don't expect the newer versions of
> Interbase to 'play ball'.
>
> So do you actually need the IB gds32.dll at all?
>
> --
> Lester Caine
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> L.S.Caine Electronic Services
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