Thread: [libdbi-devel] Question about how libdbi loads drivers

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Where does it look for the dbd directory that stores the drivers?
Does it look in the current runtime directory (ie what would be
returned by getcwd)?

Quoting Duncan McQueen <dwm...@gm...>:

> Where does it look for the dbd directory that stores the drivers?
> Does it look in the current runtime directory (ie what would be
> returned by getcwd)?
>

This is up to your app. You can pass a directory to dbi_initialize()  
to have libdbi look in that directory for the drivers. This can of  
course be also the return value of getcwd, or a subdirectory of the  
user's home directory, or whatever you like. If you pass NULL instead,  
a compile-time default will be used which you can influence with  
appropriate libdbi configure switches.

regards,
Markus

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Quoting Duncan McQueen <dwm...@gm...>:

> if I pass something like 'dbd' - will it effectively look in the
> current directory plus 'dbd'?
>

I've never tried this, but libdbi uses the opendir() function to  
access the directory. To the best of my knowledge this function works  
with both absolute and relative paths. Passing "dbd" to  
dbi_initialize() should indeed look into the dbd subdirectory of the  
current working directory.

regards,
Markus

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