[Firebird-odbc-devel] ODBC & Linux

[William L. T. Jr. <su...@ob...>]

Sorry if this is the wrong mailing list.

I would like to connect to InterBase/Firebird remotely from Linux using
C or C++.

I am not sure if ODBC drivers are made for, or can be used in Linux. I
have been familiar with ODBC drivers on Windows platforms, but I am not
in a MS env, pure Linux.

I have a dedicated DB server that I need to connect to from other
machines on the network. Pretty much lan only, maybe internet at a later
date.

I have been using the JDBC driver, InterClient 2.0 for about a year now
and it's great. However I am creating some apps in C/C++ not Java, so I
need to figure out how to connect to InterBase/Firebird using C/C++.

I was looking at the InterBase examples that come with IB 6.0, but they
all seem to use isc_attach. Which I assume is for db residing on the
same machine. Where my db will be on a remote machine.

Not sure if their are differences in the way you connect to IB or
Firebird. At the moment I am running IB 6.0, but would like to
eventually switch over Firebird. So if there are differences I would
like to be aware of them before I get to deep into writing my app.

If this is the wrong list, if you could please tell me what list to use
instead.

Thank you.

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Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
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