Fixed issue on MacOS (see #7827 in Firebird)

Author: pcisar

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 - #27 - Failed to establish a connection to the server on the specified port.
 - #15 - Documentation issue.
+- Fixed issue on MacOS (see #7827 in Firebird)
 
 ### Changed
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ classifiers = [
   "Topic :: Database",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-  "firebird-base>=1.6.1",
+  "firebird-base>=1.7.0",
   "python-dateutil>=2.8",
 ]
 

src/firebird/driver/fbapi.py

@@ -2044,7 +2044,7 @@ def __init__(self, filename: Path = None):
         if sys.platform in ('win32', 'cygwin', 'os2', 'os2emx'):
             self.client_library: ctypes.CDLL = ctypes.WinDLL(str(filename))
         else:
-            self.client_library: ctypes.CDLL = ctypes.CDLL(str(filename))
+            self.client_library: ctypes.CDLL = ctypes.CDLL(str(filename), mode=ctypes.RTLD_GLOBAL)
         #: Firebird client library name
         self.client_library_name: Path = Path(filename)
         #: Firebird API