About the InterBase Install API

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InterBase provides developers with resources that greatly facilitate the process of installing InterBase as part of an application install on the Win32 platform. It provides mechanisms for an install that is completely silent. In addition, it allows you to interact with users if desired, to gather information from them and to report progress and messages back to them.

Using the API functions contained in ibinstall.dll, you can integrate the installation of your own product with the deployment of an embedded copy of InterBase. The InterBase portion of the install is silent: it does not display billboards and need not require intervention from the end user.

Topics

• Files in the Install API
• What the Install API does
• The Install API Functions
• The install Handle
• Error Handling in the InterBase Install API
• Callback Functions
• Data Types Defined for the Install API

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• Files in the Install API