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Creating a new Berkeley DB executable on the target platform, involves:
The simplest way to begin a port is to attempt to configure and build Berkeley DB on a UNIX or UNIX-like system. This gives you a list of the files that you needed to build Berkeley DB as well as the configuration files you can use as a starting point for building on your target port.
To create a base build of Berkeley DB, following the instructions in the Berkeley DB Programmer's Reference Guide:
Download a Berkeley DB distribution from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/downloads/index.html.
Build Berkeley DB.
Berkeley DB uses the GNU autoconf tools for configuration on almost all of
the platforms it supports. Specifically, the include file
db_config.h configures the Berkeley DB build. The simplest way to
begin a port is to configure and build Berkeley DB on a UNIX or UNIX-like
system, and then take the Makefile and db_config.h
file created by that configuration, and modify it by hand to reflect
the needs of the new architecture. Unless you are already familiar with
the GNU autoconf toolset, we do not recommend you take the time to
integrate your changes back into the Berkeley DB autoconfiguration framework.
Instead, send us context diffs of your changes and any new source files
you created, and we can integrate the changes into our source tree.