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To build the test suite on Win32 platforms you will need Tcl, built from sources. You can download a copy of Tcl from the Scriptics Corporation web site. Before building Tcl, you will need to modify its makefile to make sure you are building a debug version, including thread support. This is because the set of DLLs linked into the Tcl executable must match the corresponding set of DLLs used by Berkeley DB. The test suite requires at least Tcl 8.1, but we found we needed to make local modifications to that version to make it run correctly, and so we recommend you use a newer version. These notes assume Tcl is installed as d:/tcl, but you can change that if you wish. If you run using a different version of Tcl than the one currently being used by Sleepycat Software, you will need to change the name of the Tcl library used in the build (e.g., tcl83d.lib) to the appropriate name. See Projects->Settings->Link in the db_tcl subproject.
You will also need sufficient main memory and disk. Something around 100MB of disk will be sufficient. For memory, 32MB is too small, we recommend at least 64MB.
To build, perform the following steps. Note that steps #1, #4 and #5 are part of the normal build process for building Berkeley DB.
Before running the tests for the first time, you must edit the file include.tcl in your build directory and change the line that reads:
set tclsh_path SET_YOUR_TCLSH_PATH
You will want to use the location of the tclsh program. For example, if Tcl is installed as d:/tcl, this line should be:
set tclsh_path d:/tcl/bin/tclsh83d.exe
Then, in a shell of your choice enter the following commands:
You should get a "%" prompt.
You should get a "%" prompt with no errors.
You are now ready to run tests in the test suite.