[odb-users] Installing ODB Compiler

[Nathan White]

Boris,

I attempted to re-install the compiler using the terminal command. With the commands you provided below and I received this error:
/opt$ sudo dpkg -i odb_2.2.0-1_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing odb_2.2.0-1_i386.deb (--install):
 cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 odb_2.2.0-1_i386.deb

I tried odb-2.2.0-i686-linux-gnu.tar.bz2 and received the same error.

Nathan


-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Kolpackov [mailto:boris at codesynthesis.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 6:15 AM
To: Nathan White
Cc: odb-users at codesynthesis.com
Subject: Re: [odb-users] Installing ODB Compiler

Hi Nathan,

Nathan White <newhite at rslfibersystems.com> writes:

> I'm using Ubuntu 12.04LTS 32-Bit System.

In this case you should be able to install directly from the package:

sudo dpkg -i odb_2.2.0-1_i386.deb

Have you tried this? If it didn't work, what was the error?

The advantage of using the package instead of the archive is that the ODB compiler will be installed in the default location and you will be able to invoke it just as odb, for example:

odb -d sqlite person.hxx


> I ran /opt/odb-2.2.0-i686-linux-gnu/bin/odb -d sqlite person.hxx, but 
> person.hxx was in read mode. Where does person.hxx need to be? Can it 
> already be included in a C++ project?

person.hxx is a C++ header from the hello example that used in the sample command lines. Normally, you would have your own header with your own persistent classes. If you want to use person.hxx (e.g., to test the ODB compiler), then you can find it in the hello/ subdirectory in the odb-examples package.

> newhite at newhite-GX-630:/opt$ sudo /opt/odb-2.2.0-i686-linux-gnu/bin/odb ...

You don't need to use sudo when invoking the ODB compiler.

Boris