Getting and Installing BDB SQL

Getting and Installing BDB SQL
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On Windows Systems
On Unix
The BDB SQL ADO.NET Interface

The BDB SQL interface comes as a part of the Oracle Berkeley DB download. This can be downloaded from the Oracle Berkeley DB download page.

How you install the BDB SQL interface differs depending on whether you are using a Unix or a Windows system.

On Windows Systems

The BDB SQL interface is automatically built and installed whenever you build or install Berkeley DB for a Windows system. The BDB SQL interface dlls and the command line interpreter have names that differ from a standard SQLite distribution as follows:

dbsql.exe

This is the command line shell. It operates identically to the SQLite sqlite3.exe shell.
libdb_sql50.dll

This is the library that provides the BDB SQL interface. It is the equivalent of the SQLite sqlite3.dll library.

On Unix

In order to build the BDB SQL interface, you download and build Berkeley DB, configuring it so that the BDB SQL interface is also built. Be aware that it is not built by default. Instead, you need to tell the Berkeley DB configure script to also build the BDB SQL interface. For instructions on building the BDB SQL interface, see Building the DB SQL Interface in the Berkeley DB Installation and Build Guide.

The library and application names used when building the BDB SQL interface are different than those used by SQLite. If you want library and command shell names that are consistent with the names used by SQLite, configure the BDB SQL interface build using the compatibility (--enable-sql_compat) option.

Warning

The compatibility option can break other applications on your platform that rely on standard SQLite. This is especially true of Mac OS X, which uses standard SQLite for a number of default applications.

Use the compatibility option only if you know exactly what you are doing.

Unless you built the BDB SQL interface with the compatibility option, libraries and a command line shell are built with the following names:

dbsql

This is the command line shell. It operates identically to the SQLite sqlite3 shell.
libdb_sql

This is the library that provides the BDB SQL interface. It is the equivalent of the SQLite libsqlite3 library.

The BDB SQL ADO.NET Interface

Download the ADO.NET package from the Oracle Berkeley DB download page.

Prerequisites For Building The ADO.NET Package

To build the Linq package, you will need to install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
To build SQLite.Designer, you will need to install the Microsoft Visual Studio SDK.
To build on Windows Mobile you will need to install the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Developer Tool Kit (DTK).
To build on Windows Mobile you will need to use Visual Studio 2008.

Building BDB SQL ADO.NET Interface For Windows

The package contains two Visual Studio solution files. One for Visual Studio 2008, the other for Visual Studio 2010. Open the appropriate solution file in Visual Studio.
Change the current platform target to ReleaseNativeOnly choose either Win32 or x64 depending on your target platform.
Build the solution.

Building BDB SQL ADO.NET Interface For Windows Mobile

Open the SQLite.NET.2008.WinCE.sln solution file in Visual Studio 2008.
Select Load Project Normally
Change the current platform to ReleaseNativeOnly.
Select Configuration Manager->new, then type or select the platform Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Professional DTK (ARMV4I). Choose to copy settings from Pocket PC 2003 (ARMV4I)
Build the solution.