This is a go-gettable version of the ForestDB C++ library for use in Go code that needs to link against the C++ ForestDB library but wants to integrate with go get and go build.

To use in your project you need to import the package and set appropriate cgo flag directives:

import _ "github.com/couchbaselabs/c-forestdb"

// #cgo CXXFLAGS: -std=c++11
// #cgo CPPFLAGS: -I ../../couchbaselabs/c-forestdb/internal/include
// #cgo darwin LDFLAGS: -Wl,-undefined -Wl,dynamic_lookup
// #cgo !darwin LDFLAGS: -Wl,-unresolved-symbols=ignore-all
// #include <libforestdb/forestdb.h>
import "C"

To update the upstream version of ForestDB you'll want to update ./import.sh to point to the new version (just change the URL), and then run it.

This package was inspired by the cockroachdb teams c-rocksdb project wrapping the RocksDB library.