BDE Libraries

This repository contains the BDE libraries, currently BSL (Basic Standard Library), BDL (Basic Development Library), BAL (Basic Application Library), and BBL (Basic Business Library).

Documentation and Build Links

For more information about BDE libraries follow the links below.

Open Source

Bloomberg LP (internal)

Build Instructions

BDE uses a build system based on cmake. The build system is located in the BDE tools repository (see Documentation Links).

Prerequisites

The BDE CMake build system requires the following software to be preinstalled and configured on the system:

CMake version 3.12 or later
Ninja (recommended) or GNU Make
Python

Note that python is used by the build helpers bde_build_env.py and cmake_build.py, but is not strictly needed to build BDE. See the more complete build instructions linked below for more detail.

Build Instructions (Open Source)

Please see the more complete build instructions for open source users.

The following commands can be used to configure and build the BDE repository:

Clone the bde-tools and bde repositories and add bde-tools to your PATH:

$ git clone https://github.com/bloomberg/bde-tools.git
$ export PATH=$PWD/bde-tools/bin:$PATH      # add bde-tools to the 'PATH'
$ git clone https://github.com/bloomberg/bde.git
$ cd bde

From the root of this source repository, run:

$ export BDE_CMAKE_BUILD_DIR=$PWD/_build   # configure the build directory
$ bbs_build configure -u opt_dbg_64_cpp17

To build the libraries, but not the test drivers, run:
```
$ bbs_build build
```
To also build the test drivers, run:
```
$ bbs_build build --test build
```
To build and run the test drivers, run:
```
$ bbs_build build --test run
```

Build Instructions (Bloomberg LP)

Please see the more complete build instructions for Bloomberg LP users.