Installation instructions

  1. Download latest stable version of library from DebeaDownload section and unpack them
  2. Set %DEVEL% environment variable to directory where Debea headers, libraries and plugins should be installed (windows only, for unix use --prefix configure flag)
  3. Enter to debea/dba source directory and issue following commands to compile and install:

For windows:

Using Visual Studio: 

set DEVEL=\<dir where headers and libraries should go\>
nmake -f makefile.vc <options>
nmake -f makefile.vc <options> install

Using mingw: 

export DEVEL=\<dir where headers and libraries should go\>
mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc <options>
mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc <options> install

For unix: 

configure <options>
make
make install

All options are in form <OPTION_NAME>=0/1 for Visual Studio, mingw and --enable-option/--disable-option for autoconf makefile.

Common options:

TESTS
Compile and run tests before doing install step.

DOCS
Create doxygen documentation. You have to run "make doc" and "make doc-install" to generate documentation and install it.

SHARED
Compile shared version of library

DEBUG
Set to 1 to compile debug version or to 0 to compile release version

Driver options:

SQLITE3
Create sqlite3 driver. For MSW you need to have SQLITE_PATH environment variable pointing to directory where headers and sqlite3 export library is located. Headers are searched under %SQLITE_PATH%\include, library is searched at %SQLITE_PATH%\lib

PGSQL
Create PostgreSQL driver. For MSW you need to have POSTGRESQL environment variable pointing to directory where PostgreSQL 8.x is installed, for example C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1

ODBC
Create ODBC driver

CSV
Compile support for databases in CSV file format

Usage

For unix you have dba-config script that returns proper compilation and linking flags. For windows you have to modify your project file and add %DEVEL%\include to include path and %DEVEL%\lib to linker flags.

Programs that use database plugins must be able to find so/dll files from $prefix/lib/plugins(d) (%DEVEL\lib\plugins(d) under MSW) directory.