InterBase and FireBird Connectivity Aspects
To work with InterBase and Firebird, IBDAC uses theirs client libraries (gds32.dll
and fbclient.dll correspondingly). If you are developing a 32-bit application,
then the development process will not be different for you, except some peculiarities
of each particular platform. But if you are developing a 64-bit application, you
have to be aware of specifics of working with client libraries at design-time
and run-time. To connect to an InterBase or Firebird database at design-time,
you must have its 32-bit client library. You have to place it to the
C:\Windows\SysWOW64 directory. This requirement flows out from the fact that
RAD Studio XE2 is a 32-bit application and it cannot load 64-bit libraries in
design-time. To work with an InterBase or Firebird database at run-time (64-bit application),
you must have the 64-bit client library placed to the C:\Windows\System32 directory.
