0.x Release Notes. - Go to your System directory and make backup copies of fbclient.dll and/or gds32.dll if you have appli- cations that rely on finding those libraries there. You might want to name the defined at the system level AT ALL. Installation of fbclient.dll on the Server Since Firebird 1.5, gds32.dll is not the “native” name of the client library. It is now called fbclient.dll. Consid- ering the provides the option (unchecked) to copy the client to the system directory and also to rename it to gds32.dll, if need be. Note You don't need to commit yourself one way or the other during the initial installation

you can use them both: 1. Install InterBase if it hasn't been already. 2. Find all instances of GDS32.DLL on your local machine and make sure to keep only one copy of this file: the one that belongs to the setup screen titled “Select Additional Tasks”, make sure the box “Generate client library as GDS32.DLL” is checked. c. Copy any UDFs your databases need to the udf subdir of your Firebird installation different versions of the application(s) in different directories, then copy the InterBase version of GDS32.DLL into your IB application directories. If you fail to do this, you will be obliged to specify the

User-defined function (UDF) libraries ib_udf.dll & fbudf.dll \UDF Firebird client gds32.dll Windows System dir- ectory (see note below table) Firebird 1.0 Quick Start Guide 5 Platform install Each remote client machine needs to have the client library – libgds.so on Posix clients, gds32.dll on Windows clients – that matches the release version of the Firebird server. Some extra pieces

(after you’ve read the next paragraph!) and also hunt the Windows system dirs for old copies of gds32.dll and fbclient.dll. If you’re using Linux, the uninstall scripts should have removed any copies icu*.dll, ib_util.dll $(install) Client connection libraries fbclient.dll (with an optional gds32.dll, to support legacy apps) $(install) (with an optional copy in %windir%\System32 — see note below

libraries icu*.dll, ib_util.dll \bin Client libraries fbclient.dll (with an optional gds32.dll, to support legacy apps) \bin (with an optional copy in – see note below

database servers. TIBConnection by default requires the Firebird/Interbase client library (e.g. gds32.dll, libfb- client.so, fbclient.dll,fbembed.dll) and its dependencies to be installed on the system