with the design-time assemblies of the Microsoft Visual Studio 8 C++ compiler, which is used for compiling the Firebird 2.1 series. The corresponding distributable runtimes are msvcr80.dll and msvcp80.dll the following requirements if a MSVC8 run-time assembly is in- stalled as private assembly. When compiling the UDF library, the MSVC8 runtime EITHER: • is NOT used • is used but the build is done without type) provided by your distro instead of the generic one provided by the Firebird Project • by compiling Firebird yourself, on the same system that you are going to run it on! Installing on POSIX Platforms