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Marcelene Pape
Dec 31, 2023, 3:52:29 AM12/31/23
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Hi, I am having a problem connecting MS Access and firebird. Access and Firebird are all 32-bit, running on Windows 7 64 bit.
When running the process to collect the firebird data an error is received "[ODBC Firebird Driver]Unable to connect to data source library: library 'gds32.dll' failed to load"
If I create a linked table to the firebird db or open a previously linked table the error disappears and all connections are fine.
I want to use ADODB as I want to use the free firebird ODBC driver and not the paid for ADO.Net provider. I also do not want linked tables to reduce the chance of a rogue user accessing the raw data.
Note: Note to Win32/Win64 Users
In order for this extension to work, there areDLL files that must be available to the Windowssystem PATH. For information on how to do this, see theFAQ entitled "How do I add my PHP directory to the PATHon Windows". Although copying DLLfiles from the PHP folder into the Windows system directory also works(because the system directory is by default in the system'sPATH), this is not recommended.This extension requires the following files to be in thePATH: fbclient.dll,gds32.dll
gds32.dll download firebird 2.5
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Right! I forgot to mention that!. and if any of you install any previous firebird as a service already, then shutdown the firebird server and delete gds32.dll in system32 and copy the new fbclient.dll to php folder and copy it again as a name "gds32.dll" for compatibility.
The file gds32.dll is a 32bit Windows DLL module for InterBase Client or other related programs. The file and the associated InterBase Client software was developed by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.. The file was licensed as Copyright (c) 1986 - 2009 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc..
To fix the error, you need to copy the missing gds32.dll file to your system or replace the corrupted dll file with a working one by following the instructions below. There are 3 different versions of the dll file available for download with sizes between 338.5KB - 1.06MB.
You can download gds32.dll for free from the download section on this page. After downloading the zip file, unzip it to a convenient location on your computer. In order to fix dll related errors, you need to copy the .dll file to the installation folder of the application/game, or install .dll file directly to Windows (Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10).
The Delphi IBX library still works very well with Firebird. However, there is one annoying problem: it expects the Firebird Client library DLL to be called "gds32.dll". In Delphi 7, IBX is even more restrictive in that it checks the library version number and expects it to have a major version of 6.
If you want to use Firebird with IBX then you either have to rename the Firebird client library to gds32.dll and patch it so that it has a version number of 6.3, or - if you have access to the IBX source code - hack the source of ibintf.pas so that it loads fbclient.dll instead. Both approaches have their downsides. Renaming fbclient.dll to gds32.dll is probably the easiest strategy - but can result in other problems. Hacking the library also works. But then you can't use the ibexpress package in your application or any standard package that uses it. You also have to be careful to ensure that your application is always linked with the hacked version.
The following code snippet is a skeleton of a suggested fbintf.pas. All that you need to do is to include this Pascal unit in the "uses" clause of your application and it will force IBX to load the Firebird Client library instead of the InterBase one. In fact, it does more than that. It first looks for the embedded server fbembed.dll in the application's installation folder, and loads that if it finds it. If not, it looks for fbclient.dll in the application's installation folder and loads that if it finds it - but first setting the FIREBIRD environment variable to the application's installation folder. This is so that the Firebird Client library will look in the same folder for firebird.msg and firebird.conf.
Finally, if it finds neither library, it tries to load fbclient.dll using the Windows default search algorithm for it and, if that fails then it similarly tries to load gds32.dll. Note that the FIREBIRD environment variable is not set in this case and any Firebird client library loaded will use its default search algorithm for firebird.msg and firebird.conf.
Both Firebird servers and Firebird clients depend on calls to the C/C++ runtimes. If the appropriate runtime is missing, Windows cannot load the binary. Most of the errors you will see in the logs (firebird and system) will be operating system ones, rather than exceptions that the Firebird binaries themselves could have detected or handled. Some data access layers that load the Firebird client library dynamically might transform failure to load the binary into feedback such as Cannot connect to database, wrongly implying that there is something wrong with the database.
Since Firebird 1.5, gds32.dll is not the "native" name of the client library. It is now called fbclient.dll. Consideringthe problems that Microsoft has had with DLL hell, it would make little sense if we continued to store the Firebird client library in the system directory by default.
OK. This is what I did. Downloaded embedded database file from firebird web site. Copied that file into windows system folder (gds32.dll). I have run Delphi created project and within that project one DataModule. I have created empty firebird database using third party tool. On created DataModule I have dropped TIBDatabase component and created connection to my newly created database. I have connected to it successfully. If I create any table, it is visible in my delphi project. For example, I create table Person (using third party tool) and dropped TIBTable on DataModule and that table was able to see person table in the database. So that works. Now...I did what you have told me:
First of all, it is worth understanding why a gds32.dll file is missing and why gds32.dll errors occur. It is widespread for users to encounter situations where software does not work due to flaws in .dll files.
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When running the process to collect the firebird data an error is received "[ODBC Firebird Driver]Unable to connect to data source library: library 'gds32.dll' failed to load"
If I create a linked table to the firebird db or open a previously linked table the error disappears and all connections are fine.
I want to use ADODB as I want to use the free firebird ODBC driver and not the paid for ADO.Net provider. I also do not want linked tables to reduce the chance of a rogue user accessing the raw data.
Note: Note to Win32/Win64 Users
In order for this extension to work, there areDLL files that must be available to the Windowssystem PATH. For information on how to do this, see theFAQ entitled "How do I add my PHP directory to the PATHon Windows". Although copying DLLfiles from the PHP folder into the Windows system directory also works(because the system directory is by default in the system'sPATH), this is not recommended.This extension requires the following files to be in thePATH: fbclient.dll,gds32.dll
gds32.dll download firebird 2.5
DOWNLOAD https://t.co/qP3pVfOubF
Right! I forgot to mention that!. and if any of you install any previous firebird as a service already, then shutdown the firebird server and delete gds32.dll in system32 and copy the new fbclient.dll to php folder and copy it again as a name "gds32.dll" for compatibility.
The file gds32.dll is a 32bit Windows DLL module for InterBase Client or other related programs. The file and the associated InterBase Client software was developed by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.. The file was licensed as Copyright (c) 1986 - 2009 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc..
To fix the error, you need to copy the missing gds32.dll file to your system or replace the corrupted dll file with a working one by following the instructions below. There are 3 different versions of the dll file available for download with sizes between 338.5KB - 1.06MB.
You can download gds32.dll for free from the download section on this page. After downloading the zip file, unzip it to a convenient location on your computer. In order to fix dll related errors, you need to copy the .dll file to the installation folder of the application/game, or install .dll file directly to Windows (Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10).
The Delphi IBX library still works very well with Firebird. However, there is one annoying problem: it expects the Firebird Client library DLL to be called "gds32.dll". In Delphi 7, IBX is even more restrictive in that it checks the library version number and expects it to have a major version of 6.
If you want to use Firebird with IBX then you either have to rename the Firebird client library to gds32.dll and patch it so that it has a version number of 6.3, or - if you have access to the IBX source code - hack the source of ibintf.pas so that it loads fbclient.dll instead. Both approaches have their downsides. Renaming fbclient.dll to gds32.dll is probably the easiest strategy - but can result in other problems. Hacking the library also works. But then you can't use the ibexpress package in your application or any standard package that uses it. You also have to be careful to ensure that your application is always linked with the hacked version.
The following code snippet is a skeleton of a suggested fbintf.pas. All that you need to do is to include this Pascal unit in the "uses" clause of your application and it will force IBX to load the Firebird Client library instead of the InterBase one. In fact, it does more than that. It first looks for the embedded server fbembed.dll in the application's installation folder, and loads that if it finds it. If not, it looks for fbclient.dll in the application's installation folder and loads that if it finds it - but first setting the FIREBIRD environment variable to the application's installation folder. This is so that the Firebird Client library will look in the same folder for firebird.msg and firebird.conf.
Finally, if it finds neither library, it tries to load fbclient.dll using the Windows default search algorithm for it and, if that fails then it similarly tries to load gds32.dll. Note that the FIREBIRD environment variable is not set in this case and any Firebird client library loaded will use its default search algorithm for firebird.msg and firebird.conf.
Both Firebird servers and Firebird clients depend on calls to the C/C++ runtimes. If the appropriate runtime is missing, Windows cannot load the binary. Most of the errors you will see in the logs (firebird and system) will be operating system ones, rather than exceptions that the Firebird binaries themselves could have detected or handled. Some data access layers that load the Firebird client library dynamically might transform failure to load the binary into feedback such as Cannot connect to database, wrongly implying that there is something wrong with the database.
Since Firebird 1.5, gds32.dll is not the "native" name of the client library. It is now called fbclient.dll. Consideringthe problems that Microsoft has had with DLL hell, it would make little sense if we continued to store the Firebird client library in the system directory by default.
OK. This is what I did. Downloaded embedded database file from firebird web site. Copied that file into windows system folder (gds32.dll). I have run Delphi created project and within that project one DataModule. I have created empty firebird database using third party tool. On created DataModule I have dropped TIBDatabase component and created connection to my newly created database. I have connected to it successfully. If I create any table, it is visible in my delphi project. For example, I create table Person (using third party tool) and dropped TIBTable on DataModule and that table was able to see person table in the database. So that works. Now...I did what you have told me:
First of all, it is worth understanding why a gds32.dll file is missing and why gds32.dll errors occur. It is widespread for users to encounter situations where software does not work due to flaws in .dll files.
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