`

Because of string encoding (mixing bytes and str) need to patch fbcore.py:
`
@@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ def create_database(sql='', sql_dialect=3, dsn='', user=None, password=None,
else:
dsn = database

•    dsn = b(dsn,_FS_ENCODING)
  

•    #dsn = b(dsn,_FS_ENCODING)
  
   # Parameter checks
  

@@ -801,7 +801,9 @@ def create_database(sql='', sql_dialect=3, dsn='', user=None, password=None,
trans_handle = isc_tr_handle(0)
db_handle = isc_db_handle(0)

xsqlda = xsqlda_factory(1)

• sql = b(sql,_FS_ENCODING)

• For yet unknown reason, the isc_dsql_execute_immediate segfaults when

  NULL (None) is passed as XSQLDA, so we provide one here

  api.isc_dsql_execute_immediate(isc_status, db_handle, trans_handle,
  `

`

Installed after doing a small modification to the setup.py by changing "python" to "python2"
and changing httplib to http.client as httplib in build_firebird.py (since httplib is deprecated now). Then:

python setup.py bdist_wheel
sudo pip install dist/fdb_embedded*.whl

and it seems to have installed correctly.

Now calling fdb_embedded in my script yields the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./fdb_query.py", line 10, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fdb_embedded/fbcore.py", line 656, in connect
    load_api(fb_library_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fdb_embedded/fbcore.py", line 182, in load_api
    setattr(sys.modules[__name__],'api',fbclient_API(fb_library_name))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fdb_embedded/ibase.py", line 1214, in __init__
    fb_library = CDLL(fb_library_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 348, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Do I need to find libncurses5? Am I missing something obvious? Running Arch Linux, my libncurses shared libs are all version 6.

Edit: running an strace, it's clearly looking for libncurses5... maybe it should be bundled with it?

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fdb_embedded/lib/libncurses.so.5", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/tls/libncurses.so.5", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)