Never mind, found it! ldd libfbclient.so showed that it depended on another library that was missing. After installing this library, everything worked.
Thanks for thinking along :-) John On 11-7-2013 10:15, John vd Waeter wrote: > On 11-7-2013 09:44, Philippe Makowski wrote: >> Le 10/07/13 16:13, John vd Waeter a écrit : >>> So I tried: >>> - get a 32 bit libfbclient.so from another 32 bit machine. >>> - put it in /lib/i386-linux-gnu >>> - made a reference in /etc/ld.so.conf.d >>> - run ldconfig >>> >> bad idea >> >>> But the ibconnection in freepascal still cannot find it. >>> Maybe this is a freepascal question... I don't know. >>> Is it enough to get libfbclient.so from a 32 bit machine or is does it >>> depend on more 32 bit libraries? >> certainly more >> >> you should better do something like : >> >> sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get install libfbclient2:i386 >> >> > Hi Philippe, > > Thanks for answering. > > That last extension (:I386) did it to get the 32 bit library. I didn't > know about such extension. > But still "cannot load error" while starting the program. > Could it be it finds the 64 bit libfbclient.so first and throws the "can > not load default Firebird clients" error? > > > John > > > ------------------------------------ > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Visit http://www.firebirdsql.org and click the Resources item > on the main (top) menu. Try Knowledgebase and FAQ links ! > > Also search the knowledgebases at http://www.ibphoenix.com > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
