[lazarus] Installing interbase components

marius popa mapopa at reea.net
Sat Oct 25 12:33:33 EDT 2003


Andrew Johnson wrote:
> you are probably missing the libgds library. this is installed with
> interbase or firebird 1.0.x, and _not_ Firebird 1.5, it has another lib
> named differently and doesn't work yet.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 11:35, spiri wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>I'm trying to install interbase component :INTERBASELAZ
>>but it gives me the following error:
>>
>>        TOutputFilter: "Assembling lazarus"
>>        TOutputFilter: "Linking ./lazarus"
>>        TOutputFilter: "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgds"
>>        TOutputFilter: "lazarus.pp(352) Error: Error while linking"
>>        TOutputFilter: "Closing script ./ppas.sh"
>>        TOutputFilter: "make[1]: *** [lazarus] Error 1"
>>        TExternalToolList.Run make[1]: *** [lazarus] Error 1
>>
>>when I try to compile Lazarus.
>>
>>If some one can help me!
>>Tanks
>>-- 
>>spiri
First you need to install firebird 1.x or 1.5

You can make a symlink to the new library like this (for firebird 1.5)

/usr/lib/libgds.so -> /usr/local/firebird/lib/libfbclient.so

ln -s /usr/local/firebird/lib/libfbclient.so /usr/lib/libgds.so






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