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fb_config

The fb_config script is intended to be used from within a makefile to supply various settings and compiler options which are accurate and specific to the installation being used.

Note: This script can be run by any user who has been given execute privileges to it. You do not need to be root to use this script.

fb_config options

To run the fb_config script, use a command line similar to the following: 

fb_config <option> [ <option> [...]]

The script takes one or more options on the command line:

  • –help

This parameter displays the list of allowed options. It should not be supplied in addition to other options.

  • –cflags

This option returns the list of directories where Firebird include files are stored. This is required by the C and C++ compilers to allow compiler #include directives to be correctly resolved. On my own system, this option returns '-I/opt/firebird/include'.

  • –libs

This option returns the list of directories where Firebird libraries are located and a list of those libraries that are required to be linked by the linker to create a client server Firebird application. This option returns '-L/opt/firebird/lib -lfbclient' on my system.

  • –embedlibs

This option returns the list of directories where Firebird libraries are located and a list of those libraries that are required to be linked by the linker to create an embedded Firebird application. This option returns '-L/opt/firebird/lib -lfbembed' on my system.

  • –bindir

On my system, this option returns '/opt/firebird/bin' as the full path to the Firebird /bin directory.

  • –version

This option returns a three part version string made up of the concatenation of the Firebird build version, a dash, the package version, a dot and the system architecture. My own laptop Linux system returns '1.5.0.4290-0.i686'.

The following is a brief excerpt from a makefile which shows how to define two macros, FBFLAGS and FBLIBS, and initialise them to the correct values using fb_config. Note the use of the back tick character (`) rather than a single quote character ('). 

...
FBFLAGS = 'fb_config --cflags'
FBLIBS = 'fb_config --libs'