Compiling Qt with Firebird support on Mac

[ceharon]

When I try to compile Qt using ./configure -qt-sql-ibase -qt-sql-sqlite -qt-sql-psql -I /opt/firebird/Headers/ -L /opt/firebird/Libraries/ -v I get the following error.

InterBase auto-detection... ()
g++ -c -pipe -Os -Wall -W -I../../../mkspecs/macx-g++ -I. -I/opt/firebird/Headers -I. -o ibase.o ibase.cpp
g++ -headerpad_max_install_names -o ibase ibase.o -L/opt/firebird/Libraries/ -lgds
/usr/bin/ld: can't locate file for: -lgds
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [ibase] Error 1
InterBase disabled.
InterBase support cannot be enabled due to functionality tests!
Turn on verbose messaging (-v) to ./configure to see the final report.
If you believe this message is in error you may use the continue
switch (-continue) to ./configure to continue.

How do I fix the gds error?

Thanks,
Charles

[ptle1975]

Hi Charles,

I haven't compiled all of Qt - we're using commercial - but I have compiled and used the IBASE driver on Mac with Firebird 2.

How have you installed Firebird? Are you using the Firebird Mac installers from firebirdsql.org or are you building it yourself? We have been using the prebuilt installers - which correctly install Firebird as a framework on OSX.

Firstly - we comment out line 7 of ibase.pro (unix:!contains etc)

Secondly - this is our qmake command - which should get you going:

qmake -spec macx-g++ -o Makefile "INCLUDEPATH+=/Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Headers" "INCLUDEPATH+=<YOUR_QT_SRC_DIR>/include" "LIBS+= -framework Firebird" ibase.pro

Hope this helps.

Peter Lee