Installing CDB

To install CDB, you will need:

• A PC running Windows 2000, NT, or similar

• 512MB memory

• 26MB Disk space for the tool and 1GB disk space for the databases

• A copy of the EPOC tree on your machine (This directory tree starts epoc32\)

• A copy of CDB.zip, which can be found in epoc32\tools\CDB.

Complete the following steps to install CDB on your system:

1. extract the contents of CDB.zip into the epoc32\tools directory of your EPOC tree, using unzip utility

2. open command prompt and type:

   > CDB help

   To check if the necessary files have been extracted successfully, look for the following text (or similar) that appears in the command prompt window:

   Final: \epoc32\
INFO  Code Database (c) 2004 Symbian Ltd. All Rights Reserved,
INFO  Started 18-Oct-2004 09:55:09
INFO  Connecting to N:\epoc32\data\CDB.db [Please wait]
..
To get help on the options for each command type:
    CDB help <command>

Available commands are as follows: 

    ADD: Add code to the database.
    CHECKCONFIG: Display configuration information
    COMPARERELEASE: Check compatibility of code in the current or acrosss databases.
    EXTRACTRELEASE: Extract information for a SINGLE release
    HELP: Get help on specific commands.
    RELEASEINFO: Get information about the release currently in the database.
    VERSION: Gets the CDB version being used.

INFO  Shutting DB Connection [Please wait]
.
INFO  Finished 18-Feb-2006 09:55:13

   If you see an error like this:

   'CDB' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

   It means that your path is pointing to a wrong epoc tree. To fix this, check your environment variable 'EPOCROOT', if this is set to '\', you need to be in the same directory as epoc32 directory.

3. If you get this far without any problems, it means your CDB is ready to run.