This is a windows-port of the famous GNU dbm (version 1.8.3) to Windows-OS. GNU dbm is a simple extendible hashing-mechanism to store key/value-pairs in files.
The official gdbm-website can be found at the GNU website.
You can download the original-distribution (http://www.artfiles.org/gnu.org/).
Because the original-distribution is only available for Unix-like systems, I decided to port it to Windows. The windows-port contains a prebuilt dll/lib (build with Visual C++ 6.0 on Windows 2000) and some sample executables. To be sure you can built the dll yourself, the sources and makefiles (for Visual C++ and Mingw) is included in the win32-subdirectory.
For instructions on how to build gdbm for windows have a look at the
README.txt.
The primary goal for me to port gdbm to windows was to get access to the gdbm-hash-functions via Tcl. Therefore I create Tgdbm (Tcl gdbm) which can also be downloaded from this website.
Download
- gdbm-1.8.3.zip
Windows-port of gdbm 1.8.3 (approx. 330 KB) - README_gdbm.txt
- Gdbm-man-page
History
16.07.2009
Wheee. Though this stuff ist quite old. It is used (or at least linked to) in Windows PC Utilities for Maemo Mapper for Nokia Tablet
23.08.2004
Added Makefile.cygwin (thanks to Alejandro Lopez-Valencia) to build gdbm on windows within the latest Cygwin-environment.
16. Dec. 2003
Version 1.8.3: Adapted to the new gdbm-version 1.8.3
24. Sep. 2002
Version 1.8.0c: Bugfix (thanks to Nakaue Takumi) in gdbm.h. (endif of extern „C“ in wrong line).
04. Apr. 2001
Version 1.8.0b: Bugfix (thanks to Oleg Oleinick) in gdbm_reorganize (Corrected window-filename-parsing).
01. Apr. 2001
Version 1.8.0: Initial version
Thank you so much for this information. I had no idea it would be so easy!
I have just downloaded GDBM. I will try to use it and let’s see how it goes. Thanks!
Gonna give GDBM a try. I am kind of new to this but will let you know how this goes.
Thanks,
Thanks, but I try already downloading GDBM but, after I download.. Page has an error detect..I don’t know why..
Hi Angelle,
thanks for the hint. Indeed the links were broken.
I just fixed it.
Thanks for the link. I get now the GNU dbm (version 1.8.3) to Windows-OS without any hassle. My co-workers will ask me where I get this and I just forwarded this link to them. Thanks.
Yay! Thank you so much for sharing this link with us! This is so much easier than I thought. 🙂