Try to upgrade to Firebird 3.0.7

[julien2412]

Jan-Marek Glogowski wrote
> ...
> I was looking into building 3.0.7 when trying to build Firebird for 
> Windows Arm64. I'm really wondering, why we build Firebird on Windows 
> with a heavily patched configure, which doesn't support cross building 
> at all. Any reason not to use VS / msbuild solutions? Has anyone tried
> that?
> 
> We use msbuild for quite a few external dependencies, like Python.
> ...

I gave a try (see https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/105440) and it
worked on Linux after having added a typedef for a template parameter
but then it failed on Jenkins because:
- it didn't build on Mac with "Could not find acceptable ICU library" and I
didn't find why
- it didn't build on Windows with "LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open
input file 'ifbclient.lib'" whereas I tried to use "ifbclient" everywhere in
existing patches. (BTW, just wonder we don't keep the original lib name)
after having found and fixed the "diff" problem on Windows (which needed
--strip-trailing-cr), quite disappointing.

Re thinking about what you indicated about Windows part, perhaps a first
step would be to simplify this part before trying to upgrade but clearly,
far too complicated for me...

Julien



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