In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: > >> Maybe the installer writes something in the registry, in which case you > >> could try that first. > > > > There's a problem with this on (at least some versions of) Windows: if you > > use InitialisePostgres3() it will find libpq.dll but not other libraries > > such > > as ssleay. A workable hack appears to be to cd to the directory that > > contains > > the DLLs before attempting to establish the database connection. > > I consider this an installation problem, not something that must be catered > for in FPC.
That's what I thought too. They are installed in a way that they are only easily usable via odbc. Anyway, a workaround could be to try to add the filedir of the dll found via the registry to the path. (on shell level, not FPC rtl level) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal