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The Berkeley DB distribution builds up to four separate libraries: the base C API Berkeley DB library and the optional C++, Java, and Tcl API libraries. For portability reasons, each library is standalone and contains the full Berkeley DB support necessary to build applications; that is, the C++ API Berkeley DB library does not require any other Berkeley DB libraries to build and run C++ applications.
Building for Linux, Apple iOS (known as iPhone OS previously), Mac OS X or the QNX Neutrino release is the same as building for a conventional UNIX platform.
The Berkeley DB distribution uses the Free Software Foundation's autoconf and libtool tools to build on UNIX platforms. In general, the standard configuration and installation options for these tools apply to the Berkeley DB distribution.
To perform a standard UNIX build of Berkeley DB, change to the build_unix directory and then enter the following two commands:
../dist/configure make
This will build the Berkeley DB library.
To install the Berkeley DB library, enter the following command:
make install
To rebuild Berkeley DB, enter:
make clean make
If you change your mind about how Berkeley DB is to be configured, you must start from scratch by entering the following command:
make realclean ../dist/configure make
To uninstall Berkeley DB, enter:
make uninstall
To build multiple UNIX versions of Berkeley DB in the same source tree, create a new directory at the same level as the build_unix directory, and then configure and build in that directory as described previously.
To perform a standard UNIX build of the Berkeley DB SQL interface, go to the build_unix directory and then enter the following two commands:
../dist/configure --enable-sql make
This creates a library, libdb_sql, and a command
line tool, dbsql. You can create and manipulate SQL
databases using the dbsql shell.
You can optionally provide the --enable-sql_compat
argument to the configure script. In addition to
creating libdb_sql and dbsql this
causes a thin wrapper library called libsqlite3 and
a command line tool called sqlite3 to be built. This
library can be used as a drop-in replacement for SQLite. The
sqlite3 command line tool is identical to the
dbsql executable but is named so that existing
scripts for SQLite can easily work with Berkeley DB.
../dist/configure --enable-sql_compat make
There are several arguments you can specify when configuring the Berkeley DB SQL Interface. See Configuring the SQL Interface for more information.