Setting up to build Firebird 1 on Windows


ball.gif The most complex version to build, but also the best documented.
  
ball.gif Requires several Borland tools (such as Make). These typically ship with Delphi or CBuilder.
Almost any version will do - probably even from Delphi 2.
  
ball.gif The INTERBASE env var needs to be set to the root of a firebird installation. And %INTERBASE%\bin needs to be on the PATH.
  
ball.gif The Visual Studio compiler (v5 or v6) also needs to be on the path. You will probably need to run VCVARS32.bat
  
ball.gif CVS checkout via console:
  set FB_CVS=:pserver:anonymous@firebird.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/firebird

  cvs -z3 -d %FB_CVS% checkout -P -r V1_0_3_WINLIN interbase
or use tortoise:

  
ball.gif Open a console and switch to the source directory. (It will be the top level directory called interbase, underneath the point where you checked out the source.

Type these commands:

		FB_Build_Win32_Build_Dbs.bat c:\path\to\build_dbs
		FB_Build_Wn32.bat c:\path\to\build_dbs
	  

A second window will soon open up. You can sit back and watch the build.