Win32
GDBM Library
I end up using the GNU GDBM library in
many projects where I need a simple database interface with very little
library footprint. Since many projects I work on, cover multiple
platforms with Windows included, I liked the idea of using the same DB
API across multiple OSs. A Win32 port of the GNU GDBM library was
already available, but it
was over an old version of GDBM and it was
not handling file locking correctly (truncate was also broken). So I
ended up writing a native Windows port
to address the existing issues, and to create a patch that could be
easily applied to future GDBM versions
without any problems. The ZIP file containing all the necessary bits is
available here:
The ZIP file contain the modified source tree, the patch used to change the default GDBM code, and a pre-built library binary ready to be used in your build environments. In case you needed to rebuild the library with your own Win32 toolchain, a makefile named gdbm.mak is available inside the supplied source tree.