download fbembed.dll

[calm_sea]

Good morning. I'm using lazarus with firebird 4 on win64. I can't find the fbembed.dll library for single seater installs. Where can I download fbembed.dll ?

[rvk]

Good morning. I'm using lazarus with firebird 4 on win64. I can't find the fbembed.dll library for single seater installs. Where can I download fbembed.dll ?

You can't. Firebird 4 doesn't have a single fbembed.dll.
You can use the complete install as embedded version.
See https://ib-aid.com/download/docs/fb4migrationguide.html#_installing_embedded for the actual needed files.
So use the fbclient.dll as your embedded client dll.

[Nicole]

btw:
Does anybody know, when the version of IBX may be available, which supports FB 4?

[rvk]

btw:
Does anybody know, when the version of IBX may be available, which supports FB 4?

What makes you think the latest version doesn't support FB 4?
This has already been discussed with you multiple times.

[Nicole]

Why I thought this?
Because of this site: https://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx
and this sentence

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1. The Firebird Relational Database Management System can be downloaded from http://www.firebirdsql.org. Version 2 (IBX2) provides full support for both the legacy Firebird API and the new Firebird 3 API.

Do you use FB 4 and IBX 2.5?
Will it work?
Somebody say, that there may be a new release with about starting 2023.

[Thaddy]

If you write embedded it can in my opinion never be a dll or so for that matter. Hence my disgust at such constructions. Embedded means fully self-contained and only needs one executable with everything - apart from the OS - linked in. Drop that Firebird shit: it lies to you. It is not in any way embedded. It introcuces a dependency to your code. So it is not embedded.

All stops when you use a dynamically linked dependency other than from the OS..

[domasz]

Drop that Firebird shit: it lies to you. It is not in any way embedded.

I agree but is there any embedded SQL database for FPC?

[Thaddy]

Drop that Firebird shit: it lies to you. It is not in any way embedded.

I agree but is there any embedded SQL database for FPC?

Multiple, but I would recommend staticcaly linked Sqlite3. Instructions can be found on this forum or on the mORMot website.

[rvk]

Why I thought this?
Because of this site: https://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx
and this sentence

The Firebird Relational Database Management System can be downloaded from http://www.firebirdsql.org. Version 2 (IBX2) provides full support for both the legacy Firebird API and the new Firebird 3 API.

Do you use FB 4 and IBX 2.5?
Will it work?
Somebody say, that there may be a new release with about starting 2023.

Below is a post from juli 2021 from tonyw !!
So IBX already supported 4.0 way back then.

MWA Software is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.1 of IBX for Lazarus. This is a maintenance release that fixes a problem with using Firebird 4.0.0. The fix for this problem has already been published in the SVN Repository. All users should upgrade to this version.  It is available for download from

https://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/ibx

[Nicole]

Nicole checks the manual again and found - oh yes!!!

Very excited, - and - busy.
*upgrading to FB 4*

Thank you so much for the hint.

[Thaddy]

Still leaves the same problem Rik, it is not embedded.

[rvk]

Still leaves the same problem Rik, it is not embedded.

Which isn't a problem for either TS or Nicole.

[domasz]

Multiple, but I would recommend staticcaly linked Sqlite3. Instructions can be found on this forum or on the mORMot website.

Interesting, it's a solution but honestly rather poor one. Still I won't be able to just compile my code for a different OS or architecture.

[zoltanleo]

Good morning. I'm using lazarus with firebird 4 on win64. I can't find the fbembed.dll library for single seater installs. Where can I download fbembed.dll ?

rvk is right. Firebird does not have a separate library since version 3.

Now it depends on the connection string. For example, to use a full-fledged server, do:

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1. SQL>connect '192.168.1.1/3051:/interdata/example.fdb' -user 'SYSDBA' -password 'masterkey';

But such a connection string will be used for the embedded server:

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1. SQL>connect '/interdata/example.fdb' -user 'SYSDBA' -password 'anypass';

See more
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Firebird#Connection_examples

[Nicole]

Do you like to try this?
https://lazarus.intern.es/firebird_embedded.html

This is German, what should not matter.
The link points on a list of files, which shall be copied into the very directory, which should work as "embedded".