<!--$Id: intro.so,v 10.35 2007/10/31 18:02:52 bostic Exp $--> <!--Copyright (c) 1997,2008 Oracle. All rights reserved.--> <!--See the file LICENSE for redistribution information.--> <html> <head> <title>Berkeley DB Reference Guide: Building for UNIX/POSIX</title> <meta name="description" content="Berkeley DB: An embedded database programmatic toolkit."> <meta name="keywords" content="embedded,database,programmatic,toolkit,btree,hash,hashing,transaction,transactions,locking,logging,access method,access methods,Java,C,C++"> </head> <body bgcolor=white> <a name="2"><!--meow--></a><a name="3"><!--meow--></a><a name="4"><!--meow--></a><a name="5"><!--meow--></a> <table width="100%"><tr valign=top> <td><b><dl><dt>Berkeley DB Reference Guide:<dd>Building Berkeley DB for UNIX/POSIX systems</dl></b></td> <td align=right><a href="../build_s60/notes.html"><img src="../../images/prev.gif" alt="Prev"></a><a href="../toc.html"><img src="../../images/ref.gif" alt="Ref"></a><a href="../build_unix/conf.html"><img src="../../images/next.gif" alt="Next"></a> </td></tr></table> <p align=center><b>Building for UNIX/POSIX</b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>Building for Linux, Mac OS X and the QNX Neutrino release is the same as building for a conventional UNIX platform.</p> <p>The Berkeley DB distribution uses the Free Software Foundation's <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html">autoconf</a> and <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html">libtool</a> tools to build on UNIX platforms. In general, the standard configuration and installation options for these tools apply to the Berkeley DB distribution.</p> <p>To do a standard UNIX build of Berkeley DB, change to the <b>build_unix</b> directory and then enter the following two commands:</p> <blockquote><pre>../dist/configure make</pre></blockquote> <p>This will build the Berkeley DB library.</p> <p>To install the Berkeley DB library, enter the following command:</p> <blockquote><pre>make install</pre></blockquote> <p>To rebuild Berkeley DB, enter:</p> <blockquote><pre>make clean make</pre></blockquote> <p>If you change your mind about how Berkeley DB is to be configured, you must start from scratch by entering the following command:</p> <blockquote><pre>make realclean ../dist/configure make</pre></blockquote> <p>To uninstall Berkeley DB, enter:</p> <blockquote><pre>make uninstall</pre></blockquote> <p>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.</p> <table width="100%"><tr><td><br></td><td align=right><a href="../build_s60/notes.html"><img src="../../images/prev.gif" alt="Prev"></a><a href="../toc.html"><img src="../../images/ref.gif" alt="Ref"></a><a href="../build_unix/conf.html"><img src="../../images/next.gif" alt="Next"></a> </td></tr></table> <p><font size=1>Copyright (c) 1996,2008 Oracle. All rights reserved.</font> </body> </html>