[odb-users] support for Windows RT

[Lidia Kalinovsky]

Thanks a lot for quick response and info - I'll look at it.
We don't need thread support.
I am at stage of adding of new target to existing project - still without
big success.
it will be really helpful if project with such target could be provided.

Lidia.



On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com>wrote:

> Hi Lidia,
>
> Lidia Kalinovsky <lidia at lemur-soft.com> writes:
>
> > Does ODB support Window RT ?
> > If yes, can somebody share compilations instructions/tips ?
>
> Hm, I haven't heard of anyone using ODB with Windows RT yet.
>
> I, however, did a bit of reading and I think it should be possible
> (I assume you are interested in using ODB with SQLite in a native
> C++ WinRT application). In particular, I found this series of blog
> posts very useful:
>
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2012/09/17/dual-use-coding-techniques-for-games.aspx
>
> ODB only uses Win32 functions for concurrency. While I believe
> most of them are available for Windows Store applications, the one
> set that is not is the thread creation/termination functions.
>
> If you don't need to access an ODB database from multiple threads,
> then it will probably be the easiest to just disable thread support
> in ODB.
>
> Alternatively, it should be possible to provide a WinRT-based
> implementationw of the threading classes in ODB either using the
> thread pool facility or the C++11 API.
>
> But the first thing I would try is to disable threads and see if you
> can build libodb and libodb-sqlite. And also SQLite. BTW, have you
> tried that already?
>
> For libodb, I would try these steps:
>
> 1a. See if you can add a new target (for Windows RT/ARM) to the
>     existing VS 2012 project.
>
> 1b. If that doesn't work, then I guess we will need to create a
>     new project from scratch (could be easier to make it a static
>     library to start with).
>
> 2.  Edit the odb/details/config-vc.h file and change ODB_THREADS_WIN32
>     to ODB_THREADS_NONE.
>
> 3.  Try to build the library and see what happens.
>
> I couldn't try these steps myself since apparently to develop a
> WinRT application you need Windows 8 (all my current VMs are Win 7).
> I can try to find time and give it a shot if there is interest.
>
> Boris
>



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