Installing libfq from source

libfq should work on any UNIX-like system. Note that it requires the Firebird header and client library which may be installed as part of the Firebird binary package (e.g. on OS X), or which need to be installed as separate packages (e.g. firebird-devel).

libfq can be installed from source in the usual way:

./configure
make
make install

The standard configuration options can be specified.

Additionally two custom options are available

• --with-ibase=DIR: location of Firebird's ibase.h header file, which is often in a non-standard location (see below)
• --with-fbclient=DIR: location of the fbclient library, if not in standard library path (e.g. /usr/local/lib)

Known ibase.h locations:

OpenSuSE, CentOS/RedHat:

/usr/include/firebird/

Debian/Ubuntu:

/usr/include/

FreeBSD:

/usr/local/include/

OS X:

/Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Headers/

Linking libfq

libfq depends on the Firebird client library libfbclient; be sure to link libfq before libfbclient (-lfq -lfbclient), and that libfbclient is available to the linker (on OS X it is well hidden [1]).

[1] /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/