Re: Help with Berkeley DB

[Manuel Tejada <mantemu@yahoo.com.mx>]

Thanks to all of you.

Brain, You were very illustrative.
In effect I lacked the devel package.
Right now I am downloading the libdb4.3-devel.


 --- Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net> escribió:

> Manuel Tejada wrote:
> 
> > In order to learn the basic of the Sleepycat
> Berkeley
> > DataBase recently I downloaded and installed
> > libdb4.3-4.3.28-1.tar.gz  and db-4.3.28-1.tar.bz2
> > using setup.exe.
> 
> To see what is in any package, type "cygcheck -l
> package".  Or visit the
> Cygwin package page: <http://cygwin.com/packages/>
> 
> In general, a typical library consists of three
> packages.  "foo" is the
> base package, "libfoo" contains the shared library
> (DLL) needed at
> runtime for programs compiled with this library, and
> "libfoo-devel"
> contains files necessary for development of things
> using "foo".
> 
> In the case of the BerkeleyDB packages, "db4.3" is
> the base package
> containing documentation and misc files, "libdb4.3"
> contains the DLL,
> and "libdb4.3-devel" contains the headers and import
> libraries.  Note
> that "db4.3" requires "libdb4.3" so in most cases
> all you have to do is
> select the "db4.3" package in setup.exe.  If you
> want to compile a
> BerkeleyDB program though, you need the -devel
> package.
> 
> You will only confuse yourself by referring to
> packages by their
> .tar.bz2 filename, which can be different than the
> package name.  In the
> above I am only referring to what the package is
> actually called, which
> is what you see in setup.exe.
> 
> Brian
> 
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