Re: Compiling LMDB on Windows 8.1

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

jeff.esquivel@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install node-lmdb[0] on Windows 8.1 (which uses node-gyp to 
> handle LMDB compilation) but it fails with the following error:
>
> ..\dependencies\lmdb\libraries\liblmdb\mdb.c(55): error C2059: syntax error: 
> '(' [C:\Users\Foo\Downloads\node-lmdb\node
> _modules\node-lmdb\build\node-lmdb.vcxproj]
>
> (The whole error log is available here[1]).
>
> Looking around the git repository, there seems to be a recent change in that 
> part of the code[2], so I manually checked out to the commit just before that 
> change and that seemed to enable successful compilation.
>
> Is there anything I'm doing wrong? Is there any documentation I can read about 
> the correct way to compile LMDB in Windows?

In general, you compile with gcc. We don't support MSVC.

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