Sleepy Cat Berkeley DB no longer in binary distribution

Christopher Faylor cygwin@cygwin.com
Sun Jul 21 03:36:00 GMT 2002


On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 05:57:59AM +0000, Phil Smith wrote:
>The db-2.7.7-4 Berkeley DB was provided in Cygwin 1.3.11-3 but removed
>from 1.3.12.

The Cygwin DLL has never exported db functions.

However, you seem to almost understand this since you are mentioning the
version of a db package that *is* available via setup.exe:

http://www.cygwin.com/packages/db2/

>This is unfortunate, considering that search.h, hsearch() and related APIs 
>are unavailable via the db-2.7.7.4 package or the developer package...
>
>Any suggestions, short of getting it from the cygwin-1.3.12-2-src package ?

Run setup.exe and install it.

It's under the "Database" category.

cgf

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