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1. BDE INSTALL DOWNLOAD DRIVERS
2. BDE INSTALL DOWNLOAD DRIVER
3. BDE INSTALL DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION
4. BDE INSTALL DOWNLOAD PROFESSIONAL
5. BDE INSTALL DOWNLOAD WINDOWS

The strikeout in the list above marks the incorrect elements.The Borland Database Engine is an user interface of the Firma Borland Inc.

My conclusions in this summary were premature and I have asked a further question to try and obtain further information.

BDE INSTALL DOWNLOAD DRIVER

There is no need to register the driver with Windows.Īpart from the items listed above, there is no special procedure needed to register such drivers. The actual driver needs to be somewhere on the path - typically System32. I need to amend dbxdrivers.ini appropriately and place it in the IDE directories. There is no need to amend dbxconnections.ini - the IDE will do that for me. I am summarising the answers to the specific points I had that I have obtained from the references. His response provided links to various resources. It's the post by Phillip Flores (about the 3rd one down on the page). It has a link for another FB DBExpress driver and specific information for the dbxdrivers.ini file for that driver. There's also some information available on the Delphi XE documentation Wiki pages that might help as well.ĮDIT: Found one more link at the DBExpress forums that might interest you. There's a link to connection info on this page at Embarcadero.

You can also get to their forums via NNTP I'm not using a newsreader, so I'm not sure what the address would be. (Look for a post by Ralph Horbury-Smith.) If you don't have a Developer's Network ID, you'll need to register with the Embarcadero site the link I provided uses HTTPS for some reason. This post at the Embarcadero Delphi Database->DBExpress forum may help with defining aliases for your Firebird databases, and describes connecting via the TSQLConnection component. (I'm not familiar with UniOpen personally, and don't have FireBird on this particular machine.) The IDE only reads that file during startup, so you'll need to (re)start the IDE after making the additions. The vendor or author of your particular driver should be able to provide the info that needs to go in the dbxdrivers.ini file. The documentation in the link explains the way the API function searches for DLLs basically though, the IDE has to find it somewhere on the PATH.

BDE INSTALL DOWNLOAD WINDOWS

The driver files listed in the configuration section have to exist in a location findable (like any other Windows DLL) by LoadLibrary.

BDE INSTALL DOWNLOAD DRIVERS

The connection types listed in DataExplorer come from the list of installed drivers at the beginning of that file, and each driver has one or more configuration sections which follow that list. My installation of XE has a single copy of that particular file, located (Win7 64) in C:\Users\Public\Documents\RAD Studio\8.0.

BDE INSTALL DOWNLOAD PROFESSIONAL

What steps and locations are needed to install a dbExpress database driver into the Borland XE Delphi Professional IDE?ĭataExplorer, from the best I can tell, uses dbxdrivers.ini. 35171ĭatabase Driver: UniOpen Native DBX DriverĮmbarcado Borland® Developer Studio 2006 Enterprise Version. In addition these products install files into:ĭelphi: Embarcadero® RAD Studio XE Version. For example, I have multiple versions of the two configuration files residing in: I have searched multiple questions on SO, but all of seem to start from the basis that the OP knows what is involved in driver installation.Īll the products (except the driver project) generate multiple files in multiple locations, and it is not clear what components belong where. Where should the installed components be located?Īll four vendors, Embarcadero, Borland, UniOpen, and Firebird provide documentation (most of which is very comprehensive) but I have been unable to extract from them what I need to do and where to do it.

BDE INSTALL DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION

Some of the specific points I don't know about include -ĭoes the driver need to be registered with all of Firebase, Delphi and Windows?ĭo I need to employ a specific registration procedure to accomplish registration?Īre there any elements I am missing to accomplish my aim? What steps are needed to install a dbExpress database driver into the Borland XE Delphi Professional IDE? I have got this far, and this is where I realised that I do not know what is involved in installing a new database driver what is involved in installing a new database driver into an IDE nor where the elements of the installation need to reside. I assume that the DLL is the actual driver, and I have compiled the project without problem. ini configuration files (dbxconnections.ini and dbxdrivers.ini). The driver consists of a Delphi project, which compiles to a DLL and modifications to two.

I want the database driver to be usable on the same basis as other, supplied database drivers (eg Interbase, SQL - from within the Data Explorer in the IDE). How, and where to install a database driver into an IDE? I want to install a Firebird database driver, and to have it available within the Delphi XE IDE.