Re: Using FB in embedded mode? (Re: Embedded into EXE DB systems.)

> I am using FB embedded in my shareware application, veritime
> (www.pcfworks.com/veritime/). The way to use it is as follows:
>
> 1. Download the embedded version of firebird.
> 2. Extract the contents.
> 3. Copy the dll fbembed.dll into your application's folder.
> 4. Rename the dll to fbclient.dll
> 5. That's it.

Thanks Phillip.

And then I assume you have to ship the dll as well?

Ideally I would like to just ship one .exe, but I guess it's not too much
overhead to ship a dll.

Lauchlan M

> Using FB has enabled me to quickly make a multi-user version of VeriTime
> (to be released soon).

That is one of the strengths of NexusDB - it is very easy to switch between
C/S and embedded at runtime or design time, just by using different data
access components.

Also, I have used NexusDB with RemObjects/Data Abstract to create a server
with an embedded database server, and will look into (with your guidelines
above) doing this with FireBird.

Lauchlan M


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