On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 4:34 PM Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:
> On 19 Nov 2018, at 1:58pm, Charles Hudson <charles...@twc.com> wrote: > > > I come from an ANSI SQL client / server background (Oracle, MS SQL) but > am interested in finding a SQL database to install on an old Macintosh G3 > Power PC that is running OS 9.2. > OS 9 is dead dead dead. The last release was in 1999 and support for it > ended in February 2002. What you are doing is not programming, it's > experimental archeology. > All true. > It's possible that even the current version of SQLite is compatible with > whatever you're using. But probably not. [...] > Meh think "probably yes". C, as used by SQLite, dates back to 1989, so predates MacOS 9 :). The problem you are likely to run into though, with the modern SQLite source code, is that there's probably no VFS [1] for Mac OS. So you might be able to build SQLite fine, but w/o a VFS, you cannot do much with it. Most of the SQLite code is platform agnostic, but at some point, it must interface with the local filesystem on the local platform. But Simon is also right that you'll need to be able to access a C compiler, and be able to run and diagnose any errors from it, before you can play with SQL (assuming you resolve the VFS issue too of course). In any case, please do share your experiences here, if you continue in your archaeological dig :). --DD [1] https://www.sqlite.org/vfs.html _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
