Firebird Native Client Distribution for Jaybird

Bundle of Firebird native client libraries for use with Jaybird 3 and higher.

This bundle packages fbclient.dll/libfbclient.so for the following platforms:

• Windows (x86, and x86-64)
• Linux (x86, x86-64, and, since 5.0.1.0, aarch64, and arm)
• macOS (since 5.0.1.0: x86-64, and aarch64)

It can be used with Jaybird for the native and local protocols. It does not support the embedded protocol.

Usage

To use this bundle, you need to depend on this library, your preferred Jaybird 3 (or higher) version, and the JNA version required by that version of Jaybird:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
        <artifactId>fbclient</artifactId>
        <version>5.0.1.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
        <artifactId>jaybird</artifactId>
        <version>5.0.5.java11</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
        <artifactId>jna</artifactId>
        <version>5.14.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

You can now use the native protocol without having fbclient on the library path:

public class Example {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try (Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(
                "jdbc:firebird:native:localhost:employee", "user", "password")) {
            // use connection
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

OS-specific packages

Since version 5.0.1.1, it is possible to only download libraries for a specific OS and, optionally, architecture. If you add a classifier to the Maven dependency, it will only download the JAR with libraries for that specific OS, or only the library for the specified OS and architecture.

The available classifiers are:

• darwin (macOS)
  • darwin-aarch64
  • darwin-x86
• linux (Linux)
  • linux-aarch64
  • linux-arm
  • linux-x86
  • linux-x86-64
• win32 (Windows)
  • win32-x86
  • win32-x86-64

The names of the classifiers are the technical names used by JNA (Java Native Access) for identifying libraries for a specific platform.

For example, to only get the Windows 64-bit (x86-64/AMD64) library:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
    <artifactId>fbclient</artifactId>
    <version>5.0.1.1</version>
    <classifier>win32-x86-64</classifier>
</dependency>

Download

Version 5.0.1.1

fbclient-5.0.1.1.jar

Version 4.0.5.0

fbclient-4.0.5.0.jar

Version 3.0.12.0

fbclient-3.0.12.0.jar

Build information

Version

The version has 4 components. The first three are the Firebird version that sourced the libraries (e.g. 3.0.4). The last part is a 'build' identifier, which should usually be 0. The 'build' identifier may be incremented for patches or new platforms added.