recommendation for Firebird 3

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kagi3624
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recommendation for Firebird 3

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Hello,

I have a firebird 3 database. What library should I use for mu project with wxWidgets? I have read about the database layer, but the posts were from over 10 years ago and I couldn't find a tutorial for it.
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Re: recommendation for Firebird 3

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wxDatabase is the successor to wxDatabaseLayer, but it doesn't support Firebird:
https://github.com/mtangoo/wxDatabase

However, any C++ wrapper/library for Firebird should do, you don't really need anything wxWidgets specific.
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Re: recommendation for Firebird 3

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Firebird now has its own C++ API which is quite straightforward. There is also IBPP, but it is getting quite old now and I am not sure if Firebird 3 is supported.

There is quite good documentation in the $FIREBIRD/doc folder called Using_OO_API.html. The formatting is a little off, but once you get used to the author's style it can take you a long way.

There are also several examples to perform the main functions in $FIREBIRD/interfaces folder.

Btw, why not start with Firebird 4, it's officially released and includes replication.

I have a long term plan to extend wxDatabase to include Firebird 4, but as is often the case just don't have the time at the moment.
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