On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Howard Chu <h...@highlandsun.com> wrote:
> Ignacio Casal wrote: > >> Also, I made some fixes to the mdb backend to rename it to lmdb and to >> use the >> renamed library lmdb instead of mdb (since it seems to have changed >> upstream) >> See: https://github.com/nice-software/cyrus-sasl/commits/wip/lmdb >> > > Patch looks OK. > Thanks for the review. > >> As a plus I also modified the nmake stuff to allow to build the lmdb >> backend >> instead of libdb. This is still not quite well tested but some comment are >> welcomed. >> >> https://github.com/nice-software/cyrus-sasl/commit/d0cc4dfe20e71aef853a7f73f6228d1a268b2845 >> >> From another side, the lmdb maintainer is not interested on supporting >> MSVC >> builds, even though I made a fork in case somebody wants to give it a try: >> https://github.com/nice-software/lmdb/tree/wip/msvc >> >> At this point a question arises, should we support a backend that we >> cannot >> build on the platforms supported by cyrus-sasl? That is, should we drop >> lmdb >> since the maintainer is not interested on it? Also we have the code that >> is >> not building at all without the patches I pointed out. >> > > Seems like a silly question, since LMDB builds and runs perfectly well on > all platforms. > > We simply choose not to support the Microsoft IDE. > It is not a silly question when the supported microsoft build for cyrus sasl is msvc :) > > -- > -- Howard Chu > CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com > Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ > Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ > -- Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
