Installing Genero BDL

Different forms of installation programs are provided, as individual package or bundeled with other Genero components. Refer to the appropriate installation guide for a detailed description of the installation procedure. Do not hesitate to contact your support if you need help.

After installing a package, you should:

  1. Set the FGLDIR environment variable to the installation directory.
  2. Set the PATH environment variable to (FGLDIR)/bin in order to run compilers and runtime system tools from the command line.
  3. Set the database client software environment (INFORMIXDIR, ORACLE_HOME, DB2DIR, SYBASE, PGDIR, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc)
  4. Set access path to database client software DLLs (PATH), or Unix shared libraries (LD_LIBRARY_PATH, SHLIB_PATH, LIBPATH)
  5. According to the database server you want to connect to, set up the correct database driver in FGLPROFILE. The default database driver is Informix®.
  6. Depending what rendering mode you want to use (text mode or graphical mode), you will have to set environment variables such as FGLGUI, FGLSERVER, TERM, INFORMIXTERM.
  7. If your application uses C-Extensions, a C compiler is required and you must recompile your C-Extensions as shared libraries.