RE: How to compile the LDAP C++ library?

["David Parker" <david.parker@rocketsoftware.com>]

I shied away from using the C++ API for the same reasons, though I have no more info on it than you do. However, the C API works perfectly well, and it is also used by the various OpenLDAP client tools, as well as the various test suites, so maintenance should not be an issue. Our application is written in C++, but it only requires a fraction of the LDAP client functionality supported by the C++ API, so we just wrote a small wrapper around the C API.

- DAP

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Matt Harp
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 10:59 AM
> To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: How to compile the LDAP C++ library?
> 
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm trying to build the LDAP C++ api library under 
> 2.1.25/contrib/ldapc++ on
> Windows right now.
> 
> I've read the readme, but it appears to have not changed in 
> the last 4+
> years and nothing it tells me in there works on Windows. It 
> seems geared
> more toward the Unix build environment. I've tried all I can 
> think of and
> nothing builds or even really appears to be attempting to build.
> 
> Anyone know how to get this thing built, or even better where 
> I can download
> the binaries w/o having to mess with building it.
> 
> Secondly, anyone know what kind of functionality this library 
> is missing, if
> any? Is the library maintained, or is it is just there? The 
> README says it
> was some guy's graduate project, which worries me when I'm 
> considering using
> it in a commercial product. I can't choose this API and then 
> find out that
> some guy in his basement wrote it, and it's no longer 
> maintained by anyone.
> 
> Lastly, are there any other dependable, cross-platform LDAP 
> C/C+ api's out
> there? I've found the Netscape API but I can't seem to find 
> any place to
> actually download it from (the Help looks nice though :)). 
> All links I've
> found so far that supposedly point to it actually end up 
> taking me to the
> Sun ONE api kit, which doesn't appear to be free. I'm about 
> to try out their
> trial edition, but I don't really want to pay for a LDAP api 
> if I don't have
> to.
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help you can provide me,
> 
> Matt
> mharpATseapine.com
> 
> 
>