Commit 2362da87 authored by Mark Hammond's avatar Mark Hammond

Update information about building bsddb, particularly re with and without

strong crypto.
parent 0c410276
...@@ -158,20 +158,27 @@ _bsddb ...@@ -158,20 +158,27 @@ _bsddb
Go to Sleepycat's download page: Go to Sleepycat's download page:
http://www.sleepycat.com/download/ http://www.sleepycat.com/download/
and download version 4.2.42. The file name is db-4.2.52.NC.zip. and download version 4.2.52.
XXX with or without strong cryptography? I picked "without".
With or without strong cryptography? You can choose either with or
Unpack into without strong cryptography, as per the instructions below. By
dist\db-4.2.52 default, Python is built and distributed WITHOUT strong crypto
XXX - is the above correct?
[If using WinZip to unpack the db-4.2.52.NC distro, that requires
renaming the directory (to remove ".NC") after unpacking. Unpack into the dist\. directory, ensuring you expand with folder names.
]
If you downloaded with strong crypto, this will create a dist\db-4.2.52
directory, and is ready to use.
If you downloaded WITHOUT strong crypto, this will create a
dist\db-4.2.52.NC directory - this directory should be renamed to
dist\db-4.2.52 before use.
Open Open
dist\db-4.2.52\docs\index.html dist\db-4.2.52\docs\index.html
and follow the Windows instructions for building the Sleepycat and follow the "Windows->Building Berkeley DB with Visual C++ .NET"
instructions for building the Sleepycat
software. Note that Berkeley_DB.dsw is in the build_win32 subdirectory. software. Note that Berkeley_DB.dsw is in the build_win32 subdirectory.
Build the Release version ("build_all -- Win32 Release"). Build the Release version ("build_all -- Win32 Release").
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