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

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 <[email protected]>:

> 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, <[email protected]> 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
>> <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 <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> 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 <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Trabajar, la mejor arma para tu superación
>>> "de grano en grano, se hace la arena" (R) (en trámite, pero para los
>>> cuates: LIBRE)
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Trabajar, la mejor arma para tu superación
>> "de grano en grano, se hace la arena" (R) (en trámite, pero para los
>> cuates: LIBRE)
>>
>>
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