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SAP DB Development in Linux/UNIX

1. Installing the SAP DB Development Environment
   • Prerequisites for Working with the Development Environment
   • Installing the Development Environment Package
2. Installing the SAP DB Sources
   • Prerequisites for Creating the Sources
   • Installing the Source Package
   • Setting up the Environment
   • Testing the Installation
   • File Destinations
     Working with the SAP DB Development Environment: Example
3. Building the software
   • Creating the Targets

Installing the SAP DB Development Environment in Linux/UNIX

Prerequisites for Working with the Development Environment

• Perl 5.005
• Python 1.5.2 or greater
• C/C++ Compiler gcc
• bison + flex

Installing the Development Environment Package

1. Download the tgz package containing the development tools (3 MB).
   Check whether your browser changes the package extension from tgz to tar during the download. If so, rename the package to tgz before installing it.
   
2. Extract the archive to its final destination.
   The directory DevTool is created.
3. Run the Perl script DevTools/installtools.pl.
   This creates a file DevTool/iprofile.tmp.
   Note:
   The script expects to find the Perl and Python executables in your $PATH.

Installing the SAP DB Sources in Linux/UNIX

Prerequisites for Creating the Sources

• SAP DB Development Tools
• Space requirements
  • 77 MB for the sources
  • 210 MB after the compilation (without debug information)

Installing the Source Package

1. Download the source archive (14.7 MB).
   Check whether your browser changes the package extension from tgz to tar during the download. If so, rename the package to tgz before installing it.
2. Extract the archive to its final destination.
   This creates the directory V74_03_30
3. Run the Perl script V74_03_30/installsources.pl.
   This creates the file V74_03_30/initDev_SAPDB. Now there are three directories:
   • DevTool (containing the development tools)
   • V74_03_30/SAPDB_ORG (containing the sources)
   • V74_03_30/SAPDB_DEV (here object files and executables are generated)

Setting up the Environment

1. Open a shell window
2. Source the file generated in the last step:
   . <source_root>/V74_03_30/initDev_SAPDB
   This sets all the environment variables required and changes the directory to
   <source_root>/V74_03_30/SAPDB_DEV.

Testing the Installation

Key in the following line:

$ imf.pl -n dbmcli

You get the following output:

vmake 9.8.5 28-11-2000
VMAKE_PATH=D:\OpenSourceDev\V74_03_30\SAPDB_DEV,D:\...
07-02-01 13:59:51 start of collection phase
07-02-01 13:59:52 end of collection phase
error opening '/OpenSourceDev/V74_03_30/SAPDB_DEV/...
gsp100.h
dbmcli.rc fast
geo00.h
gsp00_0.h
...
vos76a fast
sqlusr.lib fast
dbmcli.lnk fast

statistics:

macros: 1
programs: 1
dynlinklibs: 1
relocs: 1
libraries: 5
modules: 156
includes: 162
files: 13
commands: 0
extras: 0

Creating the Targets

• all.mac
• allknl.mac (Kernel and Tools)
  • kernel.shm (Kernel Executable)
  • allrte.mac (Runtime Environment)
  • dbm.mac (Database Manager)
  • ls.mac (Replication Manager)

• webagent.mac (WebDBM, WebSQL)
• wahttp.mac (Internal Web Server)

• odbc.mac (ODBC API)
• cpc.mac (C/C++ Precompiler)
• jdbc.mac (JDBC)
• scriptall.mac (Scripting Interfaces)
  • sapdbpy.mac (SAP DB SQL-Interface for Python)
  • sapdbperl.mac (SAP DB SQL-Interface for Perl, includes DBD::SAP_DB)
  • dbmpy.mac (Interface to the Database Manager for Python)
  • dbmperl.mac (Interface to the Database Manager for Perl)
  • repmanpy.mac (Interface to the Replication Manager for Python)
  • repmanperl.mac (Interface to the Replication Manager for Perl)

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