I'm having trouble linking with the Berkeley DB library.

The Berkeley DB 4.7 download doesn't include the static library libdb47s.lib (specified in the most recent makefile.vc), so I have to build myself (I googled to see if anyone online was offering the binary, but found little).

The problem is that the code is only supported up to VC8 (2005, uses .dsw and .dsp project files), but VC8 is now severely deprecated and you can't download it from Microsoft anymore. I've been trying to build with MinGW but that has thrown up a slew of problems by itself.

For the official build, where did you get the static library from? Did you build with VC6 or VC8 originally?

Maybe I should just link the bitcoin client against the non-static lib and DLL provided with the download...

Any thoughts or advice much appreciated!