[Lazarus] TIBConnection + LCLNoGui + FreeBSD

[Marcos Douglas]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Leonardo M. Ramé <l.rame at griensu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, I wrote a simple console application with widgetype NoGui to
> test a connection to Firebird 2.5 on FreeBsd. When I run in the console,
> it hangs when the method TIBConnection.Connected := True
> is called (isc_attach_database). I don't get any error message, it just hangs until I press ctrl+c.
>
> The conflict is between "interfaces" unit and FreeBSD on a headless
> machine (without graphical user interface).
>
> Here's the program:
>
> program test;
>
> {$mode objfpc}{$H+}
>
> uses
>  interfaces,
>  fpCGI,
>  IBConnection;
>
> {$R *.res}
>
> var
>  FIbConnection: TIBConnection;
>  SQLTransaction1: TSQLTransaction;
>
> begin
>  FIbConnection := TIBConnection.Create(nil);
>  SQLTransaction1 := TSQLTransaction.Create(nil);
>  FIbConnection.Connected := False;
>  FIbConnection.DatabaseName := 'test';
>  FIbConnection.UserName := 'SYSDBA';
>  FIbConnection.Password := 'masterkey';
>  FIbConnection.HostName := '127.0.0.1';
>  FIbConnection.LoginPrompt := False;
>
>  writeln('--- Here the program freezes ---');
>  FIbConnection.Connected := True;
>  SQLTransaction1.Free;
>  FIbConnection.Free;
> end.
>
> If I compile the program with "fpc test.pas" commenting out the
> interfaces unit, it works ok.
>
> My setup is this:
>
> Freebsd 8.2 - amd64 - without X.
> Lazarus 0.9.31 - SVN Revision: 30780
> FPC 2.5.1 - SVN Revision: 17494

Why use NoGui in this example?

Marcos Douglas