GDBM Database Library (the Win32 Port )

The GDBM (GNU DBM) database library is a rather efficient database library that was written under the GNU "copyleft" license. This DBM is comparible to other UNIX-esque DBM libraries such as SDBM.

A more complete introduction to GDBM is available from MIT's web site. From the same location is the GDBM manual.

We have successfully ported the GDBM library to the Win32 platform:

The GDBM libraries for Intel (both release and debug versions) are located in ftp://ftp.roth.net/pub/ntperl/gdbm/bin/
The GDBM source for the Win32 port is available at ftp://ftp.roth.net/pub/ntperl/gdbm/source/

This has not been tested on GDBM databases from systems other than Win32 so we are unaware of any problems with porting over the database. If you try to port database files from non Win32 systems, please let us know!

Note:
GDBM is not a cross platform library, so you may run in to problems if you create a database on one platform and try to access it on another. For example if you have a GDBM database created on an Alpha box it may not work if you copy it to an Intel machine. It is also possible that different OS's may cause incompatibility, for example if you created a GDBM database on a Solaris machine and copy it to a Win32 box.

Updates:

98.06.03 A fix to the database syncronization and locking functions were applied. Thanks to Sergei Romanenko <roman@spp.Keldysh.ru>.