[Firebird-devel] Problem with Firebird Windows Installer

[Tony W. <ton...@mw...>]

I have been experimenting with an embedded installation of Firebird and
checking it for compatibility/safe operation with InterBase 5.x, 6.0, 6.5
and the Firebird Windows installer: Firebird-1.0.0.796-Win32.exe.

Unfortunately, the bad citizen seems to be Firebird-1.0.0.796-Win32.exe.

The problem is that when it installs the Firebird Binaries, the installer
does not update or create the appropriate shareddll registry entries in
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLLs.

This means that other installers are unaware if what it has done and
vice-versa. So if (e.g.) you install Firebird from
Firebird-1.0.0.796-Win32.exe and then install it from an embedded installer
all is good to begin with. But if you then uninstall either package it will
remove all files rather than just decrementing the reference counts.

It looks like Firebird-1.0.0.796-Win32.exe is based on Windows Installer in
which case the problem is a missing attribute setting in the Components
table.

Regards

Tony Whyman
MWA Software