My app has its own installer but I have to guide my users to install Firebird on their own.
I'd like to install it automatically.
Thanks.
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Create a bootstrapper, for your product and the prerequisites that your product needs.
CheGueVerra
2009-02-09 17:00:49
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Other products might be a good model to follow. For example, Pidgin relies on a specific version of GTK and guides you through running the GTK installer. Being open source, one option would be to look through the source for their NSIS installer package to see how they're doing it.
JMD
2009-02-09 17:13:59
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You can download Firebird source code. It contains InnoSetup script that actually installs firebird on windows targets. You can then modify it to suit your needs.
As a side advice, maybe you should consider Inno Setup yourself.
dmajkic
2009-02-09 17:15:45
I did it. A Inno Setup for my app and embeded the firebird setup into it. But I embeded the compiled installer and I run it with \SILENT option.
Ricardo Acras
2009-04-09 01:16:37
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InterBase and hence Firebird provide an API you can use in your installer script to automate installation.
See documentation for this API in the document "InterBase 5.5 Embedded Installation Guide" http://dn.codegear.com/article/26386
The InterBase Express (IBX) components provide a Delphi binding for the installation API. This is documented in the InterBase 6.0 "Developer's Guide".
@mghie and @TOndrej have made comments about my mistake. I was the Product Manager for InterBase once upon a time, when InterBase did provide an installation API. But this answer is outdated, by literally ten years now.
Here's another resource which is more up to date:
This has step-by-step instructions for creating your own Inno Setup installer for Firebird, to accompany your own application installer. No doubt you could use a different installer technology for your application, and simply call the Inno Setup installer as an external program from your installer. But it would probably be more seamless if you also use the Inno Setup for your own product.
Bill Karwin
2009-02-09 17:31:18
The link does not work. Also, there are so many significant changes in Firebird that a lot more is necessary than just following the installation steps for an Interbase version which is long obsolete. Not a valid answer IMO. -1. Please check out the resources at http://www.firebirdsql.org instead.
mghie
2009-02-09 18:12:45
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If you don't need standalone Firebird server, you could also just include required files in your setup and use Firebird as a embedded SQL server.
Harriv
2009-02-09 18:12:04