Howto:Building #php 5.3.x Firebird driver (php_interbase.dll) with #VC9
I have finished and updated my guide to build the Firebird (2.5) driver for php 5.3 and added some missing small steps (some include issues)
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Building the #Qt FireBird #SQL driver with #MinGW on #Windows
The Qt toolkit contains many great SQL drivers and among them is also an InterBase / FireBird SQL driver. But the Windows version of the toolkit ships with SQLite and ODBC driver binaries only. The other ones have to be built by ourseleves. This article describes how to build the FireBird driver using MinGW 32bit version of Qt 4.6 for Windows.
OS Download stats from beginning of the year : big shock is Android
Here are the stats from beginning of the year and the big shock is not Windows vs Linux type of pie charts
but that there are downloads from Android !
http://sourceforge.net/downloads/firebird/stats_os?dates=2010-02-01%20to%202010-08-18
I wonder if anyone got it working on it , maybe there are only Java driver related ones, that would make sense
Manuals updated and uploaded
Norman wrote on the Firebird-doc mailing list :
“I’ve just uploaded the following manuals to the firebirdsql.org doc site”
- Gfix
- Gbak
- Firebird Internals (Added to the reference Section)
- Firebird Cache (Added to the reference section)
Firebird 2.5 compliation with Visual Studio C++ 2008 ( aka #VC9.0 ) on #Windows
I have wrote the steps in compiling php_interbase.dll with using the Firebird 2.5 binaries here but if you want to debug the Firebird client dll or the engine you should follow these steps (requires full Firebird 2.5.x compilation)
If you want to build only Firebird 2.5 with a free beer compiler i have created a video where i describe and show the steps that you need to follow
#Firebird2.1 package is updated in #Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat
The next release of Ubuntu will have an updated package for firebird with one hard to detect bug fixed (the Classic install one)
#MindTheBird materials are available in #Romanian now
Thanks to the Firebird Romanian Community (Doru, Florin …)
You can download it from the left list of links from the #mindthebird campaign
Firebird core development switched to #SVN (Subversion)
If you check the Firebird-checkins list you can observe that Firebird core development is done using SVN as software version control system.
To check out trunk all you need to do is read the subversion guide at sourceforge and here is how i have done it on my debian machine
svn co https://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/firebird/firebird/trunk firebird
Firebird is 29th most active (all time) #SourceForge / #Geeknet project.
Saw it on Adriano’s tweet , and here is the link
Firebird 2.5 to be included #MEPIS #Linux
Seems to be a popular (12th place on DistroWatch ) distro based on Debian
Firebird-2.5 will be available this evening in the MEPIS 8.5 testing Community Repository.