Firebird 5 compiling on Oracle Linux 8 Ampere V1 (arm64)

You can compile just fine Firebird 4/5 on Oracle Linux 8 Ampere V1 (arm64) all you need is GCC Toolset 12 enabled as described here .

Also same steps work for Oracle Linux 8.x on x86-64. 

sudo dnf group install "Development Tools"
sudo dnf install libicu-devel cmake git 
sudo dnf install gcc-toolset-12
scl enable gcc-toolset-12 bash

git clone https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird.git
cd firebird
./configure --with-builtin-tommath --with-builtin-tomcrypt
make

Rust Firebird Client updated to v0.23.0 with a few features

Rust Firebird Client updated to v0.23.0 with a few features :

Firebird events support added on native client #133 #142

Crates.io link is here .

Sponsoring Link for Fernando Batels is here .

Firebird high-level native client for Node.js / TypeScript status status for Firebird Advent 2022

 Firebird high-level native client for Node.js / TypeScript status status for Firebird / Typescript Advent 2022

https://qiita.com/advent-calendar/2022/firebird

To use the driver you can start with the readme from npm/github

https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-firebird-driver-native

A few more examples are in the packages/node-firebird-driver/src/test directory

We have seen several releases with a few features and changes :

January, 26, 2022

driver, driver-native - 2.4.0

• Feature #115 - Add method Statement.getExecPathText.
• Feature #119 - Implementation of isValid property.
• Feature #121 - Deprecate methods executeReturning* replacing by executeSingleton*.

native-api

• Feature #114 - Add support for Visual Studio 2022 build.

July, 20, 2021

driver, driver-native - 2.3.0

• Feature #101 - Add property Statement.hasResultSet.
• Feature #102 - Add method Statement.setCursorName.

June, 07, 2021

driver-native - 2.2.0

• Feature #87 - Support Firebird 4 INT128 data type.
• Feature #88 - Support Firebird 4 DECFLOAT(16) and DECFLOAT(34) data types.
• Feature #89 - Support Firebird 4 TIME WITH TIME ZONE and TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE data types.
• Fix #94 - Wrong year in date/timestamp when year < 100.

May, 07, 2021

native-api - 2.1.2

• Fix #86 - Race condition in events processing.

node-firebird driver status for Firebird Advent 2022

node-firebird status for Firebird Advent 2022 

https://qiita.com/advent-calendar/2022/firebird 

also for  Javascript Advent 

https://qiita.com/advent-calendar/2022/javascript

This year we have seen several releases with a few features and changes :

Version 1.1.0 Changes : 

• Srp implementation by @maratth in #242
• Add optional callback for pool destroy by @Tomas2D in #244
• Set protocolVersion as optional in escape function (TypeScript) by @Rafatcb in #248
• Bump glob-parent from 5.1.0 to 5.1.2 by @dependabot in #252
• Fix tsc build issues by @777777miSSU7777777 in #255
• Automatically reconnect to database by @Tomas2D in #259
• Fix attaching to database if database does not exists by @Tomas2D in #260
• Add definitions to transaction isolation modes by @Rafatcb in #262
• Added configurable character set for connections. by @thekevinbrown in #272
• feat(blob): add support value text for blob subtype 1 by @jesusvilla in #274
• feat(blob): add support unique transaction for get blob by @jesusvilla in #275

Version 1.1.2 Changes : 

• perf: add more solutions by @jesusvilla in #280

Version 1.1.3 Changes : 

• fix(blobAsText): add compatibility with wire protocol version >= 13 by @jesusvilla in #282

Version 1.1.4 Changes : 

• Fix Typo : Replace ISOLATION_READ_COMMITED with ISOLATION_READ_COMMITTED mentioned here #262

Npm trends for node-firebird package 

https://npmtrends.com/node-firebird

LibreOffice Base can connect to an external Firebird server

LibreOffice Base can connect to an external Firebird server , here is an example with employee.fdb from Firebird 3 examples folder copied to c:\tmp

Tested with LibreOffice 7.4.x and Firebird 3 default install on Windows 11 (all 64 bits versions)

and here is the Relation Design in LibreOffice Base 

Linux 0.0.1 compiling on Ubuntu 64

You might need some packages first

$ sudo apt-get install bin86 kvm qemu gcc build-essential qemu-system-x86 gcc-multilib

clone the github repo with 64 build fixes https://github.com/mariuz/linux-0.01

$ gh repo clone mariuz/linux-0.01

$ unzip hd_oldlinux.img.zip

$ make

$ make run 

or 

$ make run-curses 

SeaBIOS (version 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1)
iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:03.0 CA00 PCI2.10 PnP PMM+0078EBD0+006CEBD0 CA00
Booting from Floppy...
Loading system ...
Partition table ok.
31278/40950 free blocks
13544/13664 free inodes
1494 buffers = 1529856 bytes buffer space
Ok.
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Flamerobin 0.9.3.12 Snapshot released with a few Firebird 4 fixes

  Flamerobin 0.9.3.12 Snapshot released with a few Firebird 4 fixes , here is the changelog 

• Implement Int128 by @andy-123 in #230
• Implement firebird 4 types: decimal(16) and decimal(34) by @andy-123 in #244
• Some fixes by @Jdochoa in #254
• Some Fixes by @Jdochoa in #255
• FB Library Search by @Jdochoa in #261

Full Changelog: 0.9.3.11...0.9.3.12