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Getting and Installing BDB SQL
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## Getting and Installing BDB SQL

The BDB SQL interface comes as a part of the Oracle Berkeley DB download. This can be downloaded from the Oracle Berkeley DB download page.

### Installation

The BDB SQL interface is automatically built and installed whenever you build or install Berkeley DB for a Windows system. The BDB SQL interface `dll`s and the command line interpreter have names that differ from a standard SQLite distribution as follows:

- `dbsql.exe`

  This is the command line shell. It operates identically to the SQLite sqlite3.exe shell.

- `libdb_sql60.dll`

  This is the library that provides the BDB SQL interface. It is the equivalent of the SQLite `sqlite3.dll` library.

For instructions on building and installing Berkeley DB, see the Berkeley DB Installation and Build Guide, which you can find at this URL:

              http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/installation/index.html

### Note

If you are upgrading an existing BDB SQL installation, and you are upgrading from release 6.1.19 or lower, then see the SQL database upgrade instructions in the Updated SQLite Version section of the Upgrading Berkeley DB 12.1.6.0 applications to Berkeley DB 12.1.6.1 chapter in the Berkeley DB Installation and Build Guide.

### The BDB SQL ADO.NET Interface

You will create the Berkeley DB ADO.NET package. First download `sqlite-netFx-full-source-1.0.106.0.zip` from the SQLite download page https://system.data.sqlite.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/downloads.wiki.

Then, in the directory `<db>/dist` run this command:

    ./s_sql_drivers -adodotnet \
    		-ado_package /path/to/sqlite-netFx-full-source-1.0.106.0.zip

This will create the package dbsql-adodotnet-18.1.25.zip in the directory `<db>/release`.

#### Prerequisites For Building The ADO.NET Package

- To build the Linq package, you will need to install `Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1`.
- To build SQLite.Designer, you will need to install the `Microsoft Visual Studio SDK`.

#### Building BDB SQL ADO.NET Interface For Windows

- The package contains Visual Studio solution files:

  - `SQLite.NET.2010.sln` and `SQLite.NET.2012.sln` and `SQLite.NET.2013.sln` and `SQLite.NET.2015.sln`

    For use by with Visual Studio 2010 or 2012 or 2015. Note that these solution files do not build support for Linq or SQLite Designer.

  - `SQLite.NET.2010.MSBuild.sln` and `SQLite.NET.2012.MSBuild.sln` and `SQLite.NET.2013.MSBuild.sln` and `SQLite.NET.2015.MSBuild.sln`

    For use with MSBuild (Microsoft Build Engine). These can also be used with Visual Studio. These solutions exclude SQLite Designer and CompactFramework. By default, these do not build support for Linq.

- Change the current platform target to `ReleaseNativeOnly` choose either `Win32` or `x64` depending on your target platform.
- Build the solution.

#### Building the BDB SQL Shell from within the BDB SQL ADO.NET package.

To build the SQL shell from the ADO.NET package, load the appropriate Berkeley DB solution file into Visual Studio. For desktop Windows, the solution file will be in: `db-X.X.XX/build_windows`. For Windows Mobile it will be in: `db-X.X.XX/build_wince`. Where `X.X.XX` is the version of Berkeley DB in the package.

Once the project is loaded, build the `db_sql_shell` project.

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