Installation of Firebird Driver not working

[GregD]

I'm trying to install the Firebird Driver FDB but not getting very far.

Here's my steps:

1.  Install easy_install [OK]

run easy_install fdb and get the following error:

C:\>easy_install fdb

Searching for fdb

Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/fdb/

Best match: fdb 1.4

Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/f/fdb/fdb-1.4.tar.gz#md5=a99

34fd8004467ac69682e5b09e272c8

Processing fdb-1.4.tar.gz

Writing c:\users\admini~1.loc\appdata\local\temp\4\easy_install-fduyeg\fdb-1.4\s

etup.cfg

Running fdb-1.4\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\users\admini~1.loc\appdata\l

ocal\temp\4\easy_install-fduyeg\fdb-1.4\egg-dist-tmp-qfzl2d

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\python27\Scripts\easy_install-script.py", line 9, in <module>

    load_entry_point('setuptools==1.1.6', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()

  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1925, in

 main

  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1912, in

 with_ei_usage

  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1929, in

 <lambda>

  File "C:\python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup

    dist.run_commands()

  File "C:\python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 953, in run_commands

    self.run_command(cmd)

  File "C:\python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command

    cmd_obj.run()

  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 374, in

run

  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 609, in

easy_install

  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 639, in

install_item

  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 825, in

install_eggs

  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1031, in

 build_and_install

  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1016, in

 run_setup

  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 69, in run_setup

  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 120, in run

  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\sandbox.py", line 71, in <lambda>

  File "setup.py", line 7, in <module>

  File "c:\users\admini~1.loc\appdata\local\temp\4\easy_install-fduyeg\fdb-1.4\f

db\__init__.py", line 23, in <module>

  File "c:\users\admini~1.loc\appdata\local\temp\4\easy_install-fduyeg\fdb-1.4\f

db\fbcore.py", line 34, in <module>

  File "c:\users\admini~1.loc\appdata\local\temp\4\easy_install-fduyeg\fdb-1.4\f

db\ibase.py", line 43, in <module>

  File "C:\python27\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 365, in __init__

    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)

TypeError: expected string or Unicode object, NoneType found

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?