From: david <davidhooey@...>
Date: 2009-11-11T06:41:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Berkeley DB BDB Install on Windows

On Nov 10, 11:25 am, david <davidho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2:37 pm, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > 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 theBerkeleyDB.
>
> > > To start, the environment is the following.
>
> > > Windows XP
> > >BerkeleyDB4.8.24
> > > 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
>
> Thanks  a lot Luis! Giving it a try. Will post results.
>
> Dave

Still working on it. I have installed Ruby 1.9.1 using the ZIP as
opposed to the one-click installer. I also pulled down all the DLL
file and copied them to the RubyHome\bin. I was able to install all
required gems using gem. I then moved on to unpacking the devkit and
moving the devkitHome/bin files to RubyHome/bin and moving the
devkitHome to the RubyHome (not sure if I need to something more
here). Attempted to install the DBD extension. Different errors
produces, but seems like progress.

C:\bdb-0.6.5>ruby extconf.rb --with-db-dir=C:\db-4.8.24 --with-db-
lib=C:\db-4.8.24\lib --with-db-include=C:\db-4.8.24\include
extconf.rb: Entering directory `src'
checking for db_version() in db-4.7.lib... *** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
        --with-opt-dir
        --without-opt-dir
        --with-opt-include
        --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
        --with-opt-lib
        --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
        --with-make-prog
        --srcdir=.
        --curdir
        --ruby=C:/ruby-1.9.1/bin/ruby
        --enable-unknown
        --disable-unknown
        --with-db-dir
        --with-db-include=${db-dir}/include
        --with-db-lib=${db-dir}/lib
        --enable-thread
        --disable-thread
        --with-db-uniquename
        --without-db-uniquename
        --with-db-pthread
        --without-db-pthread
        --with-db-version
        --without-db-version
        --with-db-4.7lib
        --without-db-4.7lib
C:/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:362:in `try_do': The complier
failed to generate an executable
file. (RuntimeError)
You have to install development tools first.
        from C:/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:415:in `try_link0'
        from C:/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:419:in `try_link'
        from C:/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:527:in `try_func'
        from C:/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:723:in `block in
have_library'
        from C:/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:668:in `block in
checking_for'
        from C:/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:274:in `block (2
levels) in postpone'
        from C:/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:248:in `open'
        from C:/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:274:in `block in
postpone'
        from C:/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:248:in `open'
        from C:/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:270:in `postpone'
        from C:/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:667:in
`checking_for'
        from C:/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:718:in
`have_library'
        from extconf.rb:75:in `block (3 levels) in <main>'
        from extconf.rb:72:in `each'
        from extconf.rb:72:in `block (2 levels) in <main>'
        from extconf.rb:71:in `loop'
        from extconf.rb:71:in `block in <main>'
        from extconf.rb:69:in `catch'
        from extconf.rb:69:in `<main>'
extconf.rb: Leaving directory `src'

C:\bdb-0.6.5>


I'm not sure what it means "You have to install development tools
first." as I have no idea how it works. I have a funny feeling the
devkit is not plugged in properly. I will continue to research.


Thanks,
Dave