LMDB_File version 0.07
======================

LMDB_File is a Perl wrapper around the OpenLDAP's LMDB (Lightning
Memory-Mapped Database) C library.

LMDB is an ultra-fast, ultra-compact key-value data store developed
by Symas for the OpenLDAP Project. See http://symas.com/mdb/ for details.

LMDB_File provides full access to the complete C API, a thin Perl wrapper
with an Object-Oriented interface and a simple Perl's tie interface
compatible with others DBMs.

PREREQUISITES

Right now LMDB needs a 64bits platform.

Before you can build LMDB_File you need to have the following installed
on your system:

    * Perl 5.10.0 or greater linked with pthreads.
      See https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=122906 

    * A working C compiler.

    * LMDB Version 0.9.10 or greater.
      You can get the latest version from git://gitorious.org/mdb/mdb.git.

      Some Linux distributions are now including it.
      In Fedora 20, for example, all you need is "yum install lmdb-devel"

      If the library and its header file isn't found installed in
      your system, Makefile.PL will _try_ to compile the recent copy
      included in the 'liblmdb' directory.

      NOTE: At this time there is no yet an official release of the library,
      so in some platforms its Makefile may need some work.
      
    * To run the test harness for this module:
      - You must make sure that the directory where you have untarred this
      module is NOT a network drive, e.g. NFS or AFS.
      - You need the Test::Exception module installed.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

*** WARNING ***
This is an early release to allow the interested people the testing and
discussion of the module: there is some missing features and you should
be aware that the API isn't in stone yet. See TODO


COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2013-2014 by Salvador Ortiz Garcia

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.1 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.