Berkeley DB Reference Guide: Building Berkeley DB for Windows systems

Building for Win32

The build_win32 directory in the Berkeley DB distribution contains project files for Microsoft Visual C++:

These project files can be used to build Berkeley DB for any Win32 platform: Windows/XP, Windows/2000, Windows/NT, Windows/98 and Windows/95.

The build_win64 directory contains project files for Microsoft Visual C++ to target Windows on 64-bit CPUs:

Building Berkeley DB with Visual C++ .NET for Win32

1. Choose File -> Open Solution. Look in the build_win32 directory for compatible workspace files, select Berkeley_DB.dsw, and press Open.

2. You will be prompted to convert the project files to Visual C++ 7.0 project format. Select "Yes to All".

3. Set your include directories. Choose Tools -> Options -> Projects -> VC++ Directories. Under the "Show directories for" pulldown, select "Include files". Add the full pathnames for the build_win32 subdirectory of Berkeley DB. Then click OK.

4. Choose the project configuration from the drop-down menu on the .NET tool bar (Debug, Release, Debug Static or Release Static).

5. To build, right-click on build_all and select Build. The results of your build will be placed in a subdirectory of build_win32 named after the configuration you chose (for examples, build_win32/Release or build_win32/Debug).

Building Berkeley DB with Visual C++ 6.0 for Win32

1. Choose File -> Open Workspace. Look in the build_win32 directory for Workspaces, select Berkeley_DB.dsw, and press Open.

2. Set your include directories. Choose Tools -> Options -> Directories. Under the "Show directories for" pulldown, select "Include files". Add the full pathnames for the build_win32 subdirectory of Berkeley DB. Then click OK.

3. Choose the desired project configuration by going to Build -> Set Active Configuration and select the appropriate option to the build_all project (Debug, Release, Debug Static or Release Static). Then click OK.

4. To build, select Build -> Build build_all.exe. The results of your build will be placed in a subdirectory of build_win32 named after the configuration you chose (for examples, build_win32/Release or build_win32/Debug).

When building your application, you should normally use compile options "Debug Multithreaded DLL" and link against build_win32/Debug/libdb43d.lib. If you want to link against a static (non-DLL) version of the library, use the "Debug Multithreaded" compile options and link against build_win32/Debug_static/libdb43sd.lib. You can also build using a release version of the libraries and tools, which will be placed in build_win32/Release/libdb43.lib. The static version will be in build_win32/Release_static/libdb43s.lib. You will also need to add the build_win32 directory to the list of include directories of your application's project.

Each release of Berkeley DB is built and tested with this procedure using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, Standard Version and Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, Standard Version.

Building Berkeley DB for 64-bit Windows

You can follow the same steps on either the Itanium itself or to cross-compile on an x86 box.

You will need latest Platform SDK from Microsoft, available from Microsoft's web site. You only need the "Core SDK" from there.

Once that is installed, you should have an entry in your Start Menu called Microsoft Platform SDK (date) -> Open Build Environment Window -> Windows Server 2003 64-bit Build Environment -> Set Win Svr 2003 Build Env (Debug). Selecting that will open a command window with the environment set up for Itanium development.

Then, in the build_win64 directory in the Berkeley DB distribution, run:

msdev /useenv BerkeleyDB.dsw /make "build_all - Debug"

To build a release, open the "Retail" window instead of the "Debug" window, and run:

msdev /useenv BerkeleyDB.dsw /make "build_all - Release"

Building Berkeley DB with Cygwin

To build Berkeley DB with Cygwin, follow the instructions in Building for UNIX.

Building the C++ API

C++ support is built automatically on Win32.

Building the Java API

Java support is not built automatically. The following instructions assume that you have installed the Sun Java Development Kit in d:/java. Of course, if you installed elsewhere or have different Java software, you will need to adjust the pathnames accordingly.

Building Java with Visual C++ .NET

1. Set your include directories. Choose Tools -> Options -> Projects -> VC++ Directories. Under the "Show directories for" pulldown, select "Include files". Add the full pathnames for the java/include and java/include/win32 directories. Then click OK. These are the directories needed when including jni.h.

2. Set the executable files directories. Choose Tools -> Options -> Projects -> VC++ Directories. Under the "Show directories for" pulldown, select "Executable files". Add the full pathname for the java/bin directory, then click OK. This is the directory needed to find javac.

3. Set the build type to Release or Debug in the drop-down on the .NET tool bar.

4. To build, right-click on db_java and select Build. This builds the Java support library for Berkeley DB and compiles all the java files, placing the resulting db.jar and dbexamples.jar files in the build_win32/Release or build_win32/Debug subdirectory of Berkeley DB.

Building Java with Visual C++ 6.0

1. Set the include directories. Choose Tools -> Options -> Directories. Under the "Show directories for" pulldown, select "Include files". Add the full pathnames for the java/include and java/include/win32 directories. These are the directories needed when including jni.h.

2. Set the executable files directories. Choose Tools -> Options -> Directories. Under the "Show directories for" pulldown, select "Executable files". Add the full pathname for the java/bin directory. This is the directory needed to find javac.

3. Go to Build -> Set Active Configuration and select either the Debug or Release version of the db_java project. Then press OK.

4. To build, select Build -> Build libdb_java43.dll. This builds the Java support library for Berkeley DB and compiles all the java files, placing the resulting db.jar and dbexamples.jar files in the build_win32/Release or build_win32/Debug subdirectory of Berkeley DB.

To run Java code, set your environment variable CLASSPATH to include the full pathname of these jar files, and your environment variable PATH to include the build_win32/Release subdirectory. On Windows, remember that files or directories in the CLASSPATH and PATH variables must be separated by semicolons (unlike UNIX). Then, try running the following command as a test:

java com.sleepycat.examples.db.AccessExample

If you want to run Java code using a Debug build, substitute 'Debug' for 'Release' in the instructions above. Make sure you use the Debug JAR file with the Debug DLL and the Release JAR with the Release DLL.

Building the Tcl API

Tcl support is not built automatically. See Loading Berkeley DB with Tcl for information on sites from which you can download Tcl and which Tcl versions are compatible with Berkeley DB. These notes assume that Tcl is installed as d:/tcl, but you can change that if you want.

The Tcl library must be built as the same build type as the Berkeley DB library (both Release or both Debug). We found that the binary release of Tcl can be used with the Release configuration of Berkeley DB, but you will need to build Tcl from sources for the Debug configuration. Before building Tcl, you will need to modify its makefile to make sure that you are building a debug version, including thread support. This is because the set of DLLs linked into the Tcl executable must match the corresponding set of DLLs used by Berkeley DB.

Building Tcl with Visual C++ .NET

1. Set the include directories. Choose Tools -> Options -> Projects -> VC++ Directories. Under the "Show directories for" pulldown, select "Include files". Add the full pathname for tcl/include, then click OK. This is the directory that contains tcl.h.

2. Set the library files directory. Choose Tools -> Options -> Projects -> VC++ Directories. Under the "Show directories for" pulldown, select "Library files". Add the full pathname for the tcl/lib directory, then click OK. This is the directory needed to find tcl84g.lib (or whatever the library is named in your distribution).

3. Set the build type to Release or Debug in the drop-down on the .NET tool bar.

4. To build, right-click on db_tcl and select Build. This builds the Tcl support library for Berkeley DB, placing the result into build_win32/Debug/libdb_tcl4M4MINORd.dll or build_win32/Release/libdb_tcl43.dll.

If you use a version different from Tcl 8.4.x you will need to change the name of the Tcl library used in the build (for example, tcl84g.lib) to the appropriate name. To do this, right click on db_tcl, go to Properties -> Linker -> Input -> Additional dependencies and change tcl84g.lib to match the Tcl version you are using.

Building Tcl with Visual C++ 6.0

1. Set the include directories. Choose Tools -> Options -> Directories. Under the "Show directories for" pulldown, select "Include files". Add the full pathname for tcl/include, then click OK. This is the directory that contains tcl.h.

2. Set the library files directory. Choose Tools -> Options -> Directories. Under the "Show directories for" pulldown, select "Library files". Add the full pathname for the tcl/lib directory, then click OK. This is the directory needed to find tcl84g.lib (or whatever the library is named in your distribution).

3. Go to Build -> Set Active Configuration and select either the Debug or Release version of the db_tcl project. Then press OK.

4. To build, select Build -> Build libdb_tcl43.dll. This builds the Tcl support library for Berkeley DB, placing the result into build_win32/Debug/libdb_tcl4M4MINORd.dll or build_win32/Release/libdb_tcl43.dll.

If you use a version different from Tcl 8.4.x you will need to change the name of the Tcl library used in the build (for example, tcl84g.lib) to the appropriate name. To do this, choose Project -> Settings -> db_tcl and change the Tcl library listed in the Object/Library modules tcl84g.lib to match the Tcl version you are using.

Distributing DLLs

When distributing applications linked against the DLL (not static) version of the library, the DLL files you need will be found in the build_win32/Release subdirectory, or build_win32/Debug if you distribute a debug version. You may also need to redistribute DLL files needed for the compiler's runtime. For Visual C++ 6.0, these files are msvcrt.dll and msvcp60.dll if you built with a Release configuration, or msvcrtd.dll and msvcp60d.dll if you are using a Debug configuration. Generally, these runtime DLL files can be installed in the same directory that will contain your installed Berkeley DB DLLs. This directory may need to be added to your System PATH environment variable. Check your compiler's license and documentation for specifics on redistributing runtime DLLs.

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