Monday, March 20, 2023

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

Friday, March 17, 2023

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 .

Thursday, December 08, 2022

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.

Saturday, December 03, 2022

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 : 

Version 1.1.2 Changes : 
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 



Friday, November 25, 2022

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 





Thursday, September 29, 2022

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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Friday, July 01, 2022

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 


Full Changelog: 0.9.3.11...0.9.3.12