Firbird 1.5 on Windows


ball.gif An existing Firebird install is required.
The FIREBIRD env var must be set.
MSVC v6.0 is the recommended compiler.
  
ball.gif MSVC6 needs the 'dinkum' patchs applied. This is tedious and error prone, but necessary. There is a readme that explains what, where , and how.
  
ball.gif Firebird gnu32 build tools need to be on the path.
  
ball.gif CVS checkout for 1.5.3 via console:
  set FB_CVS=:pserver:anonymous@firebird.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/firebird

  cvs -z3 -d %FB_CVS% checkout -P -r R1_5_3 firebird2
or branch tag:
  cvs -z3 -d %FB_CVS% checkout -P -r RB1_5_Release firebird2
  
ball.gif Build sequence requires the following commands:
  clean_all.bat
  prepare.bat
  parse.bat
  make_boot.bat
  make_all.bat
	  
  
ball.gif A batch file to automate this process is here and we can see a html version here