[Lazarus] Firebird connection

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Alex du Plessis wrote:

> Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> > 2008/7/2 Alex du Plessis <alexdup01 at telkomsa.net>:
> >   
> >> However, when trying to activate the query (both in the IDE and at
> >> runtime) it refuses to activate but also does not return with an error
> >> message.
> >>
> >> Does anybody have any ideas where I'm going wrong?
> >>     
> >
> > I remember having similar issues a while back. What properties are you
> > setting up in the TSQLQuery?  I remember I had to set multiple
> > properties (which seemed redundent to me) before it would work. I
> > don't know if that has changed in FPC 2.2.0 and 2.2.2.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >  - Graeme -
> >
> >   
> I only changed the database,transaction and sql string properties.  
> However, from the CCR document pages I got the address of FBLib Firebird 
> library, downloaded and installed that.(It was necessary to comment out 
> 1 line as a quick resolution, in order to get the package to compile).  
> That worked without any hiccups.  Maybe that's the route to go with 
> Firebird?

SQLDb works fine. I just did the steps, and it works like a charm ? 

See

http://wiki.freepascal.org/SQLdb_Package
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Working_With_TSQLQuery

The process is fairly documented.

Michael.