Drieux wrote:
>
> On Thursday, Sep 5, 2002, at 07:32 US/Pacific, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
> wrote:
>
>> Hello All
>> I think my question is slightly misplaced in this newsgroup
>> I have been using DB_File.pm to read Berkely db files
>> Is there a similar library for C ( not C++ )
>>
>> I have been trying google search but could get one
>
>
> [..]
>
> you might want to start with
>
> perldoc DB_File
>
> { this will of course fail on machines that
> perl was built without the underlying c code... }
>
> which will point out that this is basically a
> wrapper around the Berkley DB C library - at
> which point jump into the source code for the
> version of perl you are running - and you can
> find the DB_File stuff in
>
> ext/DB_File
>
> where if you peek at the Makefile.pl you
> will notice that unless you are a MSWin32
> that it will use the $LIB set to '-ldb'
> which will filter through to the Makefile
> itself at compile time...
>
> you will most likely find libdb.* in /usr/lib
> or /usr/local/lib if it is there...
>
> you might therefore want to do the
>
> man dbopen
>
> and see if your machine has that vol 3
> man page in it...
>
> ciao
> drieux
>
> ---
>
Thanx a lot sir,
Now I atleast know where to get started. Infact I had done man
dbopen and wrote a small code just to open a db file But I was not using
-ldb when did gcc so it would never compile . I will try this thanx again
Ram
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