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Firebird 2.1 manual installation notes
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Contents
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o Installation as a service
o Execution as an application
o Installation with a different service
name
o Uninstallation
Installation as a service
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Firebird can be manually set up to run
as a service in a windows
environment by executing the following
steps:
- Make sure that an existing version
of Firebird is not running.
- Unzip the archive into the new
directory.
- Set the FIREBIRD env var to point
to the root of this directory.
(It is also recommended that the
FIREBIRD env var also be used in
the PATH env var, rather than
hard-coding a path.)
- change the current directory to
<root>\bin (here and below
<root> is the directory where
v2.1 files are located)
- Execute either install_super.bat or
install_classic.bat depending
on architecture required.
- optionally, you can copy both
fbclient.dll and gds32.dll
to the OS system directory. To do
so, use the provided instclient.exe
tool.
Execution as an application
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Alternatively, Firebird can be run as
an application. Most of the instructions
for installing as a service should be
followed. However, you should skip the
step to run the batch file.
Firebird is run as application by
executing it with the -a switch:
fbserver.exe -a
Installation with a different service
name
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A new feature of Firebird 2.1 is the
option to run multiple Firebird services
simultaneously. To do this you need to
make appropriate changes to the
firebird.conf file and then run instsvc
with the -name option. For example:
instsvc install -auto -superserver
-guardian -name secondservice
instsvc start -name secondservice
The install_super.bat and
install_classic.bat will do this automatically for
you. After modifying the firebird.conf
file just pass the servicename as a
parameter:
install_super.bat secondservice
NOTE: If you are running multiple
Firebird services it is essential that you
do not configure the FIREBIRD
environment variable at the system level.
Uninstallation
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- To remove FB 2.1 you should run the
uninstall.bat.
- Pass the service name as a
parameter if you have installed Firebird to
use a different service name.
- If you used instclient to deploy a
library to system32 you should run
instclient.exe remove <libname>
- Delete installation directory. You
may wish to keep the log file, security
database, firebird.conf and
aliases.conf.
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