LMDB for Windows

When I discovered the fantastic history of LMDB, It fascinated me. For a R&D projet, we need to present something that looks sexy and with a strong architecture. I proposed to study LMDB and bring to it the distributed engine and the clustering stuff with nodes. There are plenty ways of acheiveing this.

First, OpenLDAP-LMDB need to be ported on the Windows platform. It’s a C based code so there are no some many changes to fix for building on Windows. There was a path concat that made some problems but it’s defined as constants so I fixed it rapidly. I put it in Github after the operation was done.: https://github.com/ChristophePichaud/LMDBWindows

I was able to build a static lib for LMDB. But in Windows, we love shared modules called DLL so I have to put some little things on the source code to enable loading shared modules DLL (Dynamic Link Library).

#ifdef LMDBWINDOWSDLL_EXPORTS
#define LMDBWINDOWSDLL_API __declspec(dllexport)
#else
#define LMDBWINDOWSDLL_API __declspec(dllimport)
#endif

With theses expanded macros, it can export functions. Every headers and bodys need to be decorated. Here is the explaination. When you build the library, you define de constant LMDBWINDOWSDLL_EXPORTS in the project settings then every macros instruct the compiler to export the functions. When you build an application who needs the dll, the macro is expanded as an import operation and at the link phase, you need to link with the little stub to attach the library.

If you are new to Windows DLLs making, check this portion of doc on MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a90k134d.aspx