This repository contains the BDE libraries, currently BSL (BDE Standard Library) and BDL (BDE Development Library). For more information about BSL, BDL, and BDE, follow the links below:

• BDE wiki
• Quick-Start Guide
• Online Library Documentation
• BDE Mission Statement

October 2015

BDE 3.0 is now available. This major release introduces important subsystems including calendar types, time-zone utilities, logging facilities, event schedulers, thread-pools, and more.

See: BDE 3.0 Open-Source Release

BDE uses a build system based on waf, which is located in the BDE Tools repository. This build system must be set up before being used:

1. Make sure that python 2.6 - 2.7 are installed on the system.
2. Download BDE Tools and add the path <bde_tools_repo_root>/bin to the system PATH environment variable. Make sure the first waf command found in PATH is a script from that path.

Once the waf based build system has been set up. The following commands can be used to configure and build the BDE repository:

1. From the root of this source repository, run:

   waf configure

2. To build the libraries, but not the test drivers, run:

   waf build

   To also build the test drivers, run:

   waf build --test build

   To build and run the test drivers, run:

   waf build --test run

For more details on building the BDE repository, please see the Quick Start Guide.

For more details on the waf-based build system for building BDE-style repositories, please see its wiki page.

The BDE libraries are distributed under the Apache License (version 2.0); see the LICENSE file at the top of the source tree for more information.

If you have questions, comments, suggestions for improvement or any other inquiries regarding BDE, feel free to open an issue in the issue tracker.