Where is ibase.h most reliably found?

[Skrylar]

Under Arch, with Firebird 2.5, it is found in /usr/include. According to #1 it is not always found there, and I am uncertain if there is a pkg-config file we can use to find it.

[qqtop]

firebird 3.03 on openSuse Tumbleweed
/usr/include/firebird/ibase.h

firebird 2.5 and firebird 3.0 are different installations
and location is often dependent on who is packaging up for a distro

[Skrylar]

Debian Sid also places it at /usr/include/ibase.h
There is no pkg-config file, but both the Arch and Debian/Sid installs have an fb_config program which is good enough to tell us where ibase.h is.

[Skrylar]

@qqtop I've successfully updated and tested both examples to use the new fb_config via staticExec method. If you can confirm this also works on your end I'll consider the situation resolved.

[qqtop]

After providing the full paths to fb_config and ibase.h everything compiled successfully.

[Skrylar]

Did you modify the Nim code to find fb_config, or just make sure it was in the PATH environment variable?

[qqtop]

Modified the nim code

{.passc: staticExec("/usr/lib64/firebird/utils/fb_config --cflags").}
{.passl: "-lfbclient".}

assert int.sizeof == pointer.sizeof

const
  ibase_h = "/usr/include/firebird/ibase.h"