Firebird Embedded on MacOSX

Based on a document written by Fulvio, a while ago, I finally spent time writing a make file that will automatically create an embedded version of Firebird that will run on MacOSX as a bundle. All you do is make a normal build of Firebird Classic and then use this make file to create the Firebird.app folder which is set up in a way that allows you to access a database via isql for example without the need for a full framework. The make file detailed below was written for Firebird 2.5.x

 (updated 15th April 2014)

file embed.darwin - committed to svn B2_5_Release/builds/install/arch-specific/darwin and also to trunk
Code was added to config_root.cpp to simulate binreloc (posix) on MacOSX. Find the name of the excutable in the directory below firebird, strip the executable name, strip the lowest directory, now use the remainder to find the configuration file, firebird.conf, now read the conf file to get the actual RootDirectory for Firebird.

embed.darwin updated below, to fix a couple of other issues.

To make a Classic version of Firebird for MacOSX:
./configure
make
cd gen
make -B -f Makefile.install

Then you can use the following make file to create an embedded version.
copy embed.darwin from builds/install/arch-specific/darwin

make -B -f embed.darwin

# Makefile script to generate an embedded Firebird bundle from an existing Framework

    FBE=../gen/firebird/Firebird.app
    BINLOC=../gen/firebird/Firebird.app/Contents/MacOS/firebird/bin
    LIBLOC=../gen/firebird/Firebird.app/Contents/MacOS/firebird
    INTLOC=../gen/firebird/Firebird.app/Contents/MacOS/firebird/intl
    OLDPATH=/Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Libraries

all:
    -$(RM) -rf $(FBE) ../gen/firebird/Firebird.app
    mkdir -p $(FBE)/Contents
    mkdir -p $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS
    mkdir -p $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird
    mkdir -p $(FBE)/Contents/Resources
    mkdir -p $(FBE)/Contents/Frameworks
    mkdir -p $(FBE)/Contents/Plugins
    mkdir -p $(FBE)/Contents/SharedSupport
    mkdir -p $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird/bin
    mkdir -p $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird/intl

    cp ../gen/install/misc/firebird.conf $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird/firebird.conf
    cp ../gen/firebird/firebird.msg $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird/firebird.msg
    cp ../gen/firebird/lib/libfbembed.dylib $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird/libfbembed.dylib
    cp ../gen/firebird/lib/libicudata.dylib $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird/libicudata.dylib
    cp ../gen/firebird/lib/libicui18n.dylib $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird/libicui18n.dylib
    cp ../gen/firebird/lib/libicuuc.dylib $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird/libicuuc.dylib
    cp ../gen/firebird/lib/libib_util.dylib $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird/libib_util.dylib
    cp ../gen/firebird/security2.fdb $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird/security2.fdb
    cp ../gen/firebird/bin/gbak $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird/bin/gbak
    cp ../gen/firebird/bin/isql $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird/bin/isql
    cp ../builds/install/misc/fbintl.conf $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird/intl/fbintl.conf
    cp ../gen/firebird/intl/libfbintl.dylib $(FBE)/Contents/MacOS/firebird/intl/fbintl.dylib
    cp ../builds/install/arch-specific/darwin/embed.Info.plist $(FBE)/Contents/Info.plist

    install_name_tool -change /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Firebird \
     ../libfbembed.dylib $(BINLOC)/isql
    install_name_tool -change /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libicuuc.dylib \
    ../libicuuc.dylib $(BINLOC)/isql
    install_name_tool -change /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libicudata.dylib \
    ../libicudata.dylib $(BINLOC)/isql
    install_name_tool -change /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libicui18n.dylib \
    ../libicui18n.dylib $(BINLOC)/isql
  
    install_name_tool -change /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Firebird \
     ../libfbembed.dylib $(BINLOC)/gbak
    install_name_tool -change /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libicuuc.dylib \
    ../libicuuc.dylib $(BINLOC)/gbak
    install_name_tool -change /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libicudata.dylib \
    ../libicudata.dylib $(BINLOC)/gbak
    install_name_tool -change /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libicui18n.dylib \
    ../libicui18n.dylib $(BINLOC)/gbak
  
    install_name_tool -change $(OLDPATH)/libicuuc.dylib @loader_path/libicuuc.dylib \
    $(LIBLOC)/libfbembed.dylib
    install_name_tool -change $(OLDPATH)/libicudata.dylib @loader_path/libicudata.dylib \
    $(LIBLOC)/libfbembed.dylib
    install_name_tool -change $(OLDPATH)/libicui18n.dylib @loader_path/libicui18n.dylib \
    $(LIBLOC)/libfbembed.dylib
    install_name_tool -change $(OLDPATH)/libicudata.dylib @loader_path/libicudata.dylib \
    $(LIBLOC)/libicuuc.dylib
    install_name_tool -change $(OLDPATH)/libicuuc.dylib @loader_path/libicuuc.dylib \
    $(LIBLOC)/libicui18n.dylib
    install_name_tool -change $(OLDPATH)/libicudata.dylib @loader_path/libicudata.dylib \
    $(LIBLOC)/libicui18n.dylib

    install_name_tool -change /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libicuuc.dylib \
        @loader_path/../libicuuc.dylib $(INTLOC)/fbintl.dylib
    install_name_tool -change /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libicudata.dylib \
        @loader_path/../libicudata.dylib $(INTLOC)/fbintl.dylib
    install_name_tool -change /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libicui18n.dylib \
        @loader_path/../libicui18n.dylib $(INTLOC)/fbintl.dylib

    install_name_tool -id @rpath/libfbembed.dylib $(LIBLOC)/libfbembed.dylib
    install_name_tool -id @rpath/libicudata.dylib $(LIBLOC)/libicudata.dylib
    install_name_tool -id @rpath/libicui18n.dylib $(LIBLOC)/libicui18n.dylib
    install_name_tool -id @rpath/libicudata.dylib $(LIBLOC)/libicudata.dylib
    install_name_tool -id @rpath/libicuuc.dylib $(LIBLOC)/libicuuc.dylib
    install_name_tool -id @rpath/libicudata.dylib $(LIBLOC)/libicudata.dylib
    install_name_tool -id @rpath/libib_util.dylib $(LIBLOC)/libib_util.dylib


You can now tar a copy of the Firebird.app directory (and underlying), place anywhere on your system,
and set the RootDirectory in the firebird.conf (17th July 2013 - this now works, previously it didn't), or set the FIREBIRD environment variable to the relevant location of the firebird directory in Firebird.app, If your application is under launchctl, you can set the FIREBIRD variable in the Info.plist file provided and your application should run if placed in the same directory. Unfortunately OS X Mavericks does not use the environment.plist, so you need to set the environment variable using launchctl a simple script like the following should do the trick.

 (setup.command)
DIR=$(cd $(dirname "$0"); pwd)
launchctl setenv FIREBIRD $DIR/Firebird.app/Contents/MacOS/firebird
echo setenv FIREBIRD $DIR/Firebird.app/Contents/MacOS/firebird | sudo tee
/etc/launchd.conf

Should we produce a dedicated MacOSX embedded build along with the others (32bit/64bit/lipo)?

The (Firebird.app) can be downloaded from www.ibphoenix.com/downloads/firebirdApp.zip should anybody want it.