1. General info

Currently bigloo-lib includes the following subpackages:

Common utilities (used by all other packages)
RDBMS interface including Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite back-ends
HTTP+CGI (CGI programming framework)
XML parser (interface to James Clark's expat library )
LDAP client interface
interface for GTK+-1.2
interface to GD (GIF/PNG image processing library)
interface to gdbm

Besides, bigloo-lib includes a few experimental (and undocumented) modules:

OpenGL interface, including gtkglarea
interface to pthread, Posix Threads
interface to Unix sockets
interface to curl library http://curl.haxx.se/
interface to the GNU Gettext Utilities
interface to the GNU Readline Library

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1.1 Versions and Compitibility

The current version of bigloo-lib is 0.20. It should be compiled and used with Bigloo releases beginning from `bigloo2.5c' (final revision) up to `bigloo2.6b'.

The 0.20 release of bigloo-lib was successfully compiled and tested on RedHat Linux 9.0.

Also it is known to work on SPARC Solaris 9.

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1.2 Project Home page

http://bigloo-lib.sourceforge.net

Currently this site has only bigloo-lib documentation, converted by texi2html.

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1.3 SourceForge Project page

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bigloo-lib/

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1.4 Documentation

The documentation you see at project WEB site may differ from the documentation provided with the latest distribution of bigloo-lib. Sometimes the documentation reflects the development "bleeding edge", some of the features described there will only be visible in the next release. Use the documentation included in the package.

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1.5 Download

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3455

Note: in an upcoming 0.20 release of bigloo-lib an attempt will be made to separate each library in bigloo-lib into its own package. Also, an RPM package will be available both for each subpackage as well as entire bigloo-lib package.

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1.6 Anonymous CVS Access

This project's CVS repository can be checked out through anonymous (pserver) CVS with the following instruction set. When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bigloo-lib.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bigloo-lib login cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.bigloo-lib.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bigloo-lib co .

Also, you can browse the CVS tree with CVSWEB

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi?cvsroot=bigloo-lib

Daily tarballs of entire project CVS Repository are available at

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/bigloo-lib-cvsroot.tar.gz

Note: After you have checked bigloo-lib for a first time, you'll probably need to build a few files that are missing in CVS repository. To do so you you will need the autoconf-2.57, automake-1.7.3 and libtool-1.4.2 installed on your system (see ftp://ftp.gnu.org).

Note: This version of bigloo-lib doesn't work with autoconf-2.13 and automake-1.4-pl6 which were used in previous releases of bigloo-lib.

To create the missing files run:

chmod +x ./bootstrap ./bootstrap

When compile and install the package as usual (i.e. do ./configure, make, make check and make install.

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