Error connecting to Firebird 3, component TIBConnection (SOLVED)
lazarus / 16-Databases

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Ame555 · 2020-11-29 22:27

Dear community, I am having problems trying to connect to firebird, I
am using Lazarus V2.0.10 with the TIBConnection component, but when I
connect it sends me the message "Can not load default Firebird clients
("libfbclient.so.2.5.1" or "libgds.so" or "libfbembed.so.2.5"). Check
your installation" I am using Lubuntu 20.04.

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tonyw · 2020-11-30 14:24

It might have something to do with you using Firebird 3 and
TIBConnection looking for the Firebird 2.5 client library or the
Fiirebird 2.5 embedded server. I don't know why it would do that, IBX
always looks for libfbclient.so or libfbclient.so.2 first and only
looks for the legacy embedded server libfbembed.so or
libfbembed.so.2.5 if neither are available.

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Ame555 · 2020-11-30 23:11

Hello, thanks to your answer I could find the solution, it was only
necessary to create a symbolic link in my case this link.

sudo ln -s libfbclient.so.3.0.5 libfbclient.so.2.5.1

Now it seems to be working well.