[GSOC]Firebird Integration Weekly Update 03

[Andrzej J. R. Hunt]

I've now managed to get libfbembed (what we need) to link. The build
system fails after this point (it continues to build other things which
we don't need for firebird embedded), so I think I'll probably just
modify the main makefile to only build up to this point for now -- in
the long term I'd still like to make the whole thing work and get it
into firebird upstream though (probably more worthwhile for Firebird 3
given it's still under development). I'll still need to fiddle with
gbuild so that it finds the .dll and .lib in the right place, but
hopefully there shouldn't be any more major issues with using firebird
on windows.

On 02/07/13 20:29, Andrzej J. R. Hunt wrote:
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> In other news: it seems I've now finally successfully gotten the first
> of three sections of the firebird build completed: the build process
> builds "libfbstatic" and some tools first, then uses these tools to
> generate various other files needed for the full build., and then builds
> the "libfbembed" which we need. We're now on failing at the second stage
> due to some issues with the tools not being able to lock the firebird
> directory (no idea why yet -- it's some windows only code dealing with
> file permissions / testing for existence of directories by pretending
> they're a file and testing for a specific error? Could possibly be
> related to using this on Windows 7 instead of whatever system it was
> originally intended to be built on?)
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