VisualStudio build Notes

0.-Introduction

There are two VisualStudio builds, msvc6 and msvc7. The msvc6 build is the official build of FB in win32.

Under the directory where you put Firebird sources you will see the following directories

• builds
• mac_os_x (Mac os X build scripts)
• posix (Posix build scripts)
• win32 (Msvc build scripts)
• doc
• sql.extensions
• src
• ....

After you build Firebird you also will see the following temporary directories

• gen (cpp files generated from epp, exe and fdb's.)
• temp (compiler temporary)
• output (build output)

1.-TODO

2.-Prerrequisites

To prepare the standard msvc6 build of FB you need:

• Microsoft VisualStudio 6 or 7.
• A running Firebird server

If you intend to modify the dsql parser file (parse.y) you will need a parser generator, bison or byacc (Berkeley yacc) and the sed utility. At this time byacc 1.9 is the official parser generator although in the future it will be switched to bison. The tested versions of byacc are 1.9 or newer and for bison 1.28 or newer.

If you intend to prepare an installable build, you will need innosetup and the sed utility.

To download the utilities use the following links

• Inno setup http://www.jrsoftware.org/
• Sed and Bison 1.35 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
• Byacc 1.9 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/

2.-Installing the utilities

2.1.-Visual Studio

1. Install VisualStudio 6/7
2. If you use VisualStudio 6, before building Firebird and its tools, you need to apply some patches from the following site
   http://www.dinkumware.com/vc_fixes.html

2.2.-Sed and bison

2.3.-Inno setup

4.- Building

4.1.-Standard build

1. Open a command line window.
2. Go to the firebird2 builds\win32 directory.
3. Run the following batches in order (your version of VisualStudio is detected automatically)
1. prepare.bat [FIREBIRD]
2. make_boot.bat
3. make_all.bat [DEBUG] [CLEAN]
4. make_examples.bat [DEBUG] [CLEAN] (this is only needed if you want to build examples)

After the build finish, the firebird directory with the binaries is created as "output" below your firebird directory.

• To make a clean build from scratch after making changes to the code use the clean_all.bat script

4.2.-Parser rebuild

Remember, you need sed and bison or yacc in the path to rebuild the parser

If you change parser.cpp or parser.sed you will need to rebuild parser.cpp, to do so use parser.bat

4.3.-Installer build

Remember, you need sed and innosetup in the path to build the installer

Open a command line window.

Go to the firebird2 src\install\arch-specific\win32 directory.

The batch to build the installer is
BuildExecutableInstall.bat [DEBUG] [CS]
Where DEBUG means if the build is a debug one or not and CS means classic server installer.