Firebird-2.5-0_Win32.zip), you will find them there The easiest way to get these files is to download the Firebird Windows Stuff results in Yet Another Microsoft Installation Nightmare. You can also use the MS Visual Studio runtime installerĬomes in the system32\ subdirectory of the Firebird Zip distributable. The Firebird Windows Setup tool already does Which means they must be installed to the Windows Side-by-Side folder But only when they are "installed properly", These files are updated automatically by the Windows Update Visual Studio Runtime Version numbers Firebird Version IPLicence.txt to your client folder (especially when you deliver yourĪpplication to customers). If you want to be 100 % correct, you should also copy IDPLicence.txt and
Visual Studio runtime files (see below).How your application directory looks like You can find the fbclient.dll in the Zip release package of Firebird.
When your application is a 32 bit application, you need the corresponding 32 bit fbclient.dll – even when your application runs on a 64 bit machine. Make sure you use the correct 32 bit or 64 bit version of fbclient.dll. Rely on this so it's safer to just deliver the runtime DLLs together with the Have the required runtime DLLs installed on their system. The runtime DLLs are delivered together with Firebird so youĭon't have to download them from Microsoft.Īs Windows (and Microsoft Office) itself also uses these runtime DLLs, quite often the users already Depending on the Firebird version used, these runtime DLLs haveĭifferent names. Windows and they chose to compile fbclient.dll so it requires the Visual Studio The Firebird developers use Microsoft Visual Studio to compile Firebird on Subdirectory of your Firebird installation.
You will find the original fbclient.dll in the bin\ The easiest way to do this is to put fbclient.dll in the same directory as yourĪpplication's. Your application needs access to the Firebird client library, fbclient.dll.
This article describes how to run Firebird based applications on Windows with theĪbsolute minimum client installation required. Minimum Firebird Client Installation on Windows