From: david <davidhooey@...>
Date: 2009-11-12T05:55:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Berkeley DB BDB Install on Windows

On Nov 11, 3:36 pm, david <davidho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 11:19 am, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Nov 11, 12:54 am, david <davidho...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > [...]
>
> > > I have now installed the correct Ruby installation and plugged in the
> > > development kit. Ruby is now...
>
> > > ruby 1.9.1p243 (2009-07-16 revision 24175) [i386-mingw32]
>
> > > I have also downgradedBerkeleyDBto 4.6.21 which is compatible with
> > > bdb-0.6.5.
>
> > > During the extconf.rb execution it takes a lot longer now (about 10
> > > minutes), as it seems to be searching for certain library files. Even
> > > with different combinations of the --with* parameters I have not been
> > > able to get the install to find theBerkeleyDBfiles. TheBerkeleyDB
> > > files are as such...
>
> > Can you tell us the content of "lib"?
>
> > It seems is looking fordb-4.7, which should be "libdb-4.7.a" or
> > "db-4.7.lib"
> > (and similar for other versions)
>
> > I'm not familiarized with the packaging of BDB so cannot say from
> > here.
>
> > Seems it offers too many combinations for BDB.
>
> > Please include the pages/URLs where you got all the packages (bdb
> > extension and bdb binaries) so I can replicate the same environment
> > here.
>
> > --
> > Luis Lavena
>
> Thanks Luis,
>
> bdb-0.6.5http://rubyforge.org/projects/bdb/
>
> Berkeley DB 4.6.21.msi Windows installerhttp://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/db/ind...
>
> The BerkeleyDB/lib is as follows.
>
> C:\db-4.6.21\lib>dir
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is CCDF-9304
>
>  Directory of C:\db-4.6.21\lib
>
> 11/09/2009  03:56 PM    <DIR>          .
> 11/09/2009  03:56 PM    <DIR>          ..
> 10/03/2007  04:20 PM           172,934 libdb46.lib
> 10/03/2007  04:17 PM           173,720 libdb46d.lib
> 11/09/2009  03:56 PM    <DIR>          perl
>                2 File(s)        346,654 bytes
>                3 Dir(s)  17,745,936,384 bytes free
>
> C:\db-4.6.21\lib>
>
> Yes, it seems the file match is not correct.
>
> Thanks again,
> Dave

I have even tried Matt Bauer's BDB with no luck.
http://github.com/mattbauer/bdb/blob/master/README.textile

I'm currently testing Berkeley DB 4.7.25.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/db/index.html

Thanks,
Dave