From 23ab97aca8c7801f8958709f6f22fb5a387d9e40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: htom <hatvanitamas09@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:32:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] reading in duckdb filepath as arg and opening the database

---
 src/main.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 130b059..8e92f20 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -1,6 +1,28 @@
+#include <duckdb.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+int main(int argc, char** argv){
+    printf("Hello from HardCompound!\n");
+
+    if(argc < 2){
+        printf("You need to specify a duckdb file path! Terminating!\n");
+        exit(1);
+    }
+    printf("First argument: %s", argv[1]);
+
+    duckdb_database db;
+    if(duckdb_open(argv[1], &db) == DuckDBError){
+        printf("Error opening duckdb file, terminating!");
+        exit(2);
+    }
+
+    duckdb_connection conn;
+    if(duckdb_connect(db, &conn) == DuckDBError){
+        printf("Error connecting to the duckdb database! Terminating!");
+        exit(3);
+    }
+
 
-int main(){
-    printf("Hello World");
     return 0;
 }