libDatabase provides an abstraction layer for relational database management systems (RDBMS) using SQL as the query language.
libDatabase depends on the DeforaOS libSystem library (version 0.4.3 or above), which is found on the website for the DeforaOS Project: https://www.defora.org/.
libDatabase depends on the following components:
- DeforaOS libSystem
- An implementation of
make - GTK-Doc for the API documentation
- PostgreSQL's client libraries
- SQLite 2
- SQLite 3
With GCC, this should then be enough to compile and install libDatabase:
$ make install
To install libDatabase in a dedicated directory, like /path/to/libDatabase:
$ make PREFIX="/path/to/libDatabase" install
If necessary, it is possible to re-generate the Makefiles for the current
platform with configure(1) from the DeforaOS configure project, found at
https://www.defora.org/os/project/16/configure. The procedure is then as
follows:
$ configure
$ make
Please refer to the documentation of DeforaOS configure for further instructions.
THe Makefiles provided target the NetBSD Operating System https://www.netbsd.org/ by default.
Part of libDatabase's API can also be accessed from within the Python programming language. This binding is not compiled or installed by default. After installing libDatabase as documented above, the Python interface can be built and installed as follows:
$ (cd src/python && make install)
Likewise, an alternate installation directory may be specified:
$ (cd src/python && make PREFIX="/path/to/libDatabase" install)
Makefiles can be re-generated for the bindings as well:
$ configure src/python
DeforaOS libDatabase is subject to the terms of the 2-clause BSD license.
Please see the COPYING file for more information.
The Python bindings are outdated and still assume Python 2.7.