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hack lshlib into happiness with mingw

_locking() for file locking; hardcode pagesize as 64k; use
lseek()/read()-write()/lseek() and buffers to emulate mmap().

I haven't actually tested all this lshlib functionality, but with this
change I can build an audioDB.dll which works well enough to be linked
into a binary which seems to work under Wine.

README.txt

to install, try:

python setup.py build
python setup.py install

Notes: 
 - a compatible build of audioDB (>=r914) needs to be linkable at runtime
 - currently only the direct C-api exposure layer is visible, so the calling semantics are a bit gross


The actual query call is a bit of a mess, but will be more intuitive from the native python layer (to be written)...
so the python bindings now have a complete path:
	>>import _pyadb
	>>aDB = _pyadb._pyadb_create("test.adb", 0,0,0)
	>>_pyadb._pyadb_status(aDB)
	>>_pyadb._pyadb_insertFromFile(aDB, "someFeats.mfcc12")
		...(add some more data)
	>>result = _pyadb._pyadb_queryFromKey(aDB, "a Key in aDB", [options])
	
	and then result has a nice dict of your results.  



21 September 2009, Ben Fields, [e-mail]