Here is my guide on using the latest stable release for Lazarus and latest free pascal compiler (2.2.2) on Ubuntu intrepid/hardy Also after that install firebird related components and seems to work very well (tested the db aware components)
The changes in this release are as follows:
The LCL now uses Unicode strings encoded as UTF-8 on all platforms.
Lazarus now runs natively under Mac OS X using the “Carbon” widget
set. The LCL internal graphic system was rewritten for more
consistency, more flexibility, better Delphi compatibility, icon
support, and native image lists. The IDE designer now allows you to
connect form components, like databases on TDataModule.
Lazarus can be used with Firebird and there are many components to choose UIB, Zeos , FbLib , PDO…
Here is the tutorial with screenshots in French , but from images you can follow the lazarus wizzards and it should be ok in any language
The list of open issues for Lazarus 0.9.26 is getting smaller by the day. Most are fixed. Some are re-targeted to 0.9.28, if we estimate it takes too long fix them now. Some are re-targeted to 1.0.0, if closer inspection turns out the bug is not a regression. Read more
We are proud to officially announce the release of the ZEOS DBO Library 6.6.3 – stable Read more
At the moment (well, for the last two years now) we only use FBLib.
The original author is nowhere to be found, so I started maintaining
or rather fixing the issues we deteced. For our latest FBLib, you can
get a update from tiOPF’s project on SourceForge.net. Read more
Lazarus Ide is now included in Ubuntu Hardy/Intrepid and can be easily be installed and then can work with Firebird
In some tasks we need to know how many users are connected to the database. And even which users are connected… There is an interesting piece of code with which you may achieve this this. It is an additional source file written for ZeosDBO 6.1.3 library. It only works with Firebird 1.5. But it can be easy modified for another Firebird/Interbase server.
This little article shows how to access Firebird databases by using the ZEOS component Library in version 6.1.5 (including Patches 1&2) and how to use these components in database applications. It does not matter if you use the “real” SQL-Server or the embedded version which is restricted to local held databases. A couple of examples (also migrated Delphi-BDE demos) shall explain how to use the ZEOS components.
I was very surprised realizing that my Win 32 Lazarus+Firebird embedded application can be installed and running on PCBSD (www.pcbsd.org) OS under Wine. Although I couldn’t install Win32 Firebird server, it seems that embedded server (consists of .dll files) works OK! One more option for multiplatform pograming…
Regards,Zlatko
