Re: [gnome-db] How to build libgda and use it with Vala

[Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>]

Hi!

Please note that the SQLite database provider works like a charm, but the Firebird one is not on par with the SQLite one (not time and incentive to work on it).

Regards,

Vivien

2015-09-05 14:31 GMT+02:00 <steve oneledger co uk>:

Hi Daniel,

I couldn't get that macro's switches to work, I tried all sorts of combinations of --with-firebird and --with-firebird-libdir-name to get the script to see the Firebird libraries without success.

The Firebird header files are in /usr/include/ and the client libraries are in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/

I tried:

--with-firebird

--with-firebird=yes

--with-firebird=yes --with-firebird-libdir-name=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/

--with-firebird=/usr --with-firebird-libdir-name=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/

--with-firebird-libdir-name=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/

none of which worked. I don't know if there's a bug in the macro or if I was misunderstanding the instructions in the macro's header comments.

Anyway, I noted the macro defaulted to searching /usr/include and /usr/lib so I created symlinks for the client libraries:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libfbclient.so /usr/lib/libfbclient.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libfbembed.so /usr/lib/libfbembed.so

and that seems to have done the trick:

Compiled providers:
      Berkeley DB = no
      Berkeley DB SQL = no
      FireBird (client)= yes
      FireBird (embed)= yes
      MDB (MS Access) = no
      MySQL = no
      Oracle = no
      PostgreSQL = no
      SQLite = yes (embedded)
      SQLCipher = yes
      JDBC = no
      WEB = no
      LDAP = no

Thanks again for your help.
Steve.

 

 

On 2015-09-04 23:06, Daniel Espinosa wrote:

As for m4/firebird.m4 (you should read It), --with-firebird to automatically search the libs and headers.  Because you follow standard procedure I hope this will be enough

El sept. 4, 2015 3:59 PM, <steve oneledger co uk> escribió:

I have installed Firebird2.5-classic, the client library, the embedded library and the dev files following the instructions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firebird2.5

but the script still does not compile for Firebird.

If I use the find command to look for ibase.h it is in /usr/include

sudo find / -name ibase.h
/usr/include/ibase.h

so I think the dev files did install correctly.

Is there something I can tweak to make the script find the Firebird dev files?

 

 

On 2015-09-04 20:26, Daniel Espinosa wrote:

You should install development package, in order to get Firebird pc file locatable by pkg-config. Then you'll see Firebird found and its provider compiled against.

2015-09-04 13:22 GMT-05:00 <steve oneledger co uk>:

Thanks again, Daniel

The script now reaches the end successfully but I have one more question, this is the list of 'Compiled providers' displayed in my terminal:

Compiled providers:
      Berkeley DB = no
      Berkeley DB SQL = no
      FireBird (client)= no
      FireBird (embed)= no
      MDB (MS Access) = no
      MySQL = no
      Oracle = no
      PostgreSQL = no
      SQLite = yes (embedded)
      SQLCipher = yes
      JDBC = no
      WEB = no
      LDAP = no

Do I need to do something more to get Firebird active? I do have the Firebird client libraries and dev files installed.

Steve.

 

 

On 2015-09-04 18:02, Daniel Espinosa wrote:

You should use

VALA_API_VERSION=0.30 ./autogen.sh --enable-vala --enable-vala-extensions

in order to compile against Vala-0.30

2015-09-04 11:55 GMT-05:00 <steve oneledger co uk>:

Thanks Gergely and Daniel,

I have Vala-0.29.2 on Linux Mint Mate which I have installed from source using the standard

./configure

make

sudo make install

vala, valac, vapicheck and vapigen are all in /usr/local/bin and libvala-0.30.so.0.0.0 is in /usr/local/lib

When I run the command you have suggested

./autogen.sh --enable-vala --enable-vala-extensions

The script halts with the following error:

checking for vapigen vapigen-0.26... no
configure: Searching for vapigen-0.26 program...
checking for vapigen-0.26... no
configure: error: Can't locate vapigen-0.26 >= 0.26.0 program

It does not seem to accept vapigen-0.30 as > vapigen-0.26.0

I created a symlink as vapigen-0.26.0 and that got me past this error but then I got a similar error message for libvala and the symlink trick wouldn't work for that. Is it a bug or did I do something wrong?

Regards

Steve

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