This repository contains the BDE libraries, currently BSL (BDE Standard Library) and BDL (BDE Development Library). For more information about BSL, BDL, and BDE, follow the links below:
October 2014: Important new features include:
- bslh - An implementation of C++ ISO Proposal N3980, which significantly improves how hash functions are defined
bdlt- A collection of date and time types, and utilities for manipulating them. Of particular note:bdlt::Datebdlt::Datetimebdlt::CurrentTime
- bdldfp::Decimal types are now 10X faster, making use of the Intel Decimal Floating Point Math Library
- Support for Visual Studio 2013
See BDE 2.22 Relase Notes.
Note that bdlt is available on master but is not on releases/2.22.x.
BDE uses a build system based on waf, which is located in the BDE Tools repository. This build system must be set up before being used:
- Make sure that python 2.6 - 2.7 are installed on the system.
- Download BDE Tools and add the
path
<bde_tools_repo_root>/binto the systemPATHenvironment variable. Make sure the firstwafcommand found inPATHis a script from that path.
Once the waf based build system has been set up. The following commands can be used to configure and build the BDE repository:
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From the root of this source repository, run:
waf configure
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To build the libraries, but not the test drivers, run:
waf build
To also build the test drivers, run:
waf build --test build
To build and run the test drivers, run:
waf build --test run
For more details on building the BDE repository, please see the Quick Start Guide.
For more details on the waf-based build system for building BDE-style repositories, please see its wiki page.
The BDE libraries are distributed under the Apache License (version 2.0); see the LICENSE file at the top of the source tree for more information.
If you have questions, comments, suggestions for improvement or any other inquiries regarding BDE, feel free to open an issue in the issue tracker.