[Firebird-odbc-devel] Odbc driver build 2.0.145 (for testing)

[Nikolay S. <nik...@re...>]

Hi, All!

A few people asked me privately to provide them Firebird ODBC driver 
with the most recent changes and install instructions.
So I decided to make and publish a snapshot build instead.

You can find it here:
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/download/odbc_test/OdbcFb_v2_0_145_Win32.zip

To install you can either use the official 2.0 installer, and replace 
the DLL with new one. Or you can install driver DLL by hand:
0. Uninstall Firebird or Red Database ODBC driver if one was installed 
earlier using installer (to avoid possible confusion later)
1. Unpack OdbcFb32.dll to some temporary folder (NOT Windows\System32 or 
SysWOW64)
2. Run "...Windows\System32[or SysWOW64 if on x64]\regsvr32.exe /i 
OdbcFb32.dll". If on Vista you need to do this in elevated command 
prompt. This will copy DLL to appropriate Windows system directory.
If on 64-bit box, you than need to run SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe manually to 
configure 32-bit DSN.  ODBC control panel applet only controls 64-bit ODBC.

The changes in this build are:

145)    - current BUILDNUM_VERSION set 145 ( 10 Sep 2008 )
    - Fix ODBC driver to work correctly with Microsoft Project 2003. 
This involves the following changes:
      - Implement basic support for SQL_GUID data type
      - Implement partial column binding. Previously, if NULL buffer 
pointer and non-null
        indicator variable were passed to SQLBindCol the driver crashed.
      These changes make Project 2003 save and load projects from 
Firebird databases correctly
      thanks to Nikolay Samofatov
    - Re-organize cvs tree for ODBC driver
      Make branch naming conform more closely to standard used for 
Firebird tree
      thanks to Paul Reeves
    - Fix 'invalid parameter in transaction parameter block' error with 
Firebird 2.1
      thanks to Nikolay Samofatov
    - Fix DSN configuration dialog crashes due to double-free bugs in 
users management code
      thanks to Nikolay Samofatov

-- 
Nikolay Samofatov, MBA
Red Soft International
+1 416 710 6854