From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-11-10T04:40:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Berkeley DB BDB Install on Windows

On Nov 9, 11:45 am, david <davidho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been scripting in Ruby (and Rails) for about two years now, but
> have never gotten into the internals of the module/gem side. I've
> created a Ruby script using SQLite3 which works well for small data
> sets but has a performance issue when dealing with a large amount of
> data. I'm hoping to try the Berkeley DB.
>
> To start, the environment is the following.
>
> Windows XP
> Berkeley DB 4.8.24
> ruby  1.8.6-27 (http://rubyinstaller.org)
> devkit-3.4.5r3-20090411 (http://rubyinstaller.org/addons.html)
> bdb-0.6.5
>

That will not work.

DevKit has been prepared to work with newer RubyInstaller releases,
not the old One-Click ones. That is because One-Click has been
compiled with VC6 and RubyInstaller with GCC, Ruby needs to use the
same compiler.

Using the correct version of Ruby with the DevKit will allow you use --
with-db-dir option pointing to the root of the compiled BDB libraries
(which seems you didn't extract or installed).

So, first:

* Get the proper Ruby and DevKit
* Get BDB binaries and development dependencies
* Unpack them in a directory you remember
* Unpack the bdb extension
* Proceed with extconf and the proper compilation options.

HTH,
--
Luis Lavena