DBI driver for the Firebird RDBMS server.

• Copyright © 2010-2013 Popa Adrian Marius
• Copyright © 2011-2013 Stefan Suciu
• Copyright © 2011-2013 Damyan Ivanov
• Copyright © 2011 Alexandr Ciornii
• Copyright © 2010-2011 pilcrow
• Copyright © 1999-2005 Edwin Pratomo
• Portions Copyright © 2001-2005 Daniel Ritz

You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file. (http://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html)

Requirements:

• Perl (Threaded and version 5.8.1 or higher)
• Perl DBI (1.41 or higher)
• Firebird (2.5.1 or higher)
• A C compiler

  • UN*X GCC 4.x (tested, older may or may not work) or other capable clang

  • Windows

    • Strawberry perl (http://strawberryperl.com/) comes with it's own compiler (mingw)
    • or Microsoft Express VC++ 9 (2008) /10 (2010) /11
    • Cygwin

  • Freebsd

    • Threaded Perl is required (You have to re-install Perl from ports and you have to select the config option that says 'build a Perl with threads')

BEFORE BUILDING, TESTING AND INSTALLING this you will need to:

• Build, test and install Perl 5 (at least 5.8.1). It is very important to TEST it and INSTALL it!

• Build, test and install the DBI module (at least DBI 1.41). It is very important to TEST it and INSTALL it! On Debian/Ubuntu you can do a simple: sudo apt-get install firebird2.5-dev libdbi-perl

• Remember to read the DBI README file if you installed it from source

• Make sure that Firebird server is running (for testing telnet localhost 3050)

BUILDING: Win32/Win64 with Strawberry type 'dmake' from the console

Win32/Win64 with MS compiler: type 'nmake', not just 'make'

To Configure and build the DBD: perl Makefile.PL make

TESTING To run tests module Test::Exception is required on Debian/Ubuntu systems: sudo apt-get install libtest-exception-perl

Please, set at least DBI_PASS (or ISC_PASSWORD), before 'make test'. The default for DBI_USER is 'SYSDBA'.(masterkey password is given here as example only) ISC_PASSWORD=masterkey make test

INSTALLING: make install (if the tests look okay)