Re: [Chicken-users] gdbm and windows

[Martin DeMello]

On 7/17/07, Kon Lovett <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Jul 16, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Martin DeMello wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if chicken/gdbm works on windows? I have an app using
> > GDBM that I'd like to port to windows at some point, but I don't
> > actually have a windows setup to try it on right now. Should I be
> > making plans to move it over to sqlite3 or something?
>
> GDBM works on Windows. However, I had to jump thru some hoops. The
> binary installer doesn't install "gdbm-dll.h", which I had to copy
> from the source. Also, the Chicken compiler doesn't like pathnames
> with spaces on Windows. I copied the gdbm files from the default
> install location - C:\Program Files\GnuWin32 - to my mingw
> directories. (For some reason a shortcut - C:\GnuWin32 - wasn't seen
> by the compiler. If MSVC is used then will probably work. I use MinGW.)

Thanks, Kon :) Now that I know it works in theory I'm willing to sit
back and say I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

martin