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PostgreSQL Native Win32 FAQ Using MinGW
Last updated: Fri Oct 8 12:47:37 EDT 2004
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/project/win32.html.
The native Win32 port is built from source using MinGW tools. There
is also a precompiled binary installer called pginstaller which you
can download from http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller. It is a
fully native build and uses no additional software like MinGW.
Tools for Building Binaries
The native Win32 port requires a 32-bit NT-based Microsoft operating
system, like Windows NT 4, Windows 2000/2003, or Windows XP. (NT 4
doesn't support tablespaces because it doesn't support the junction
points needed for symlinks.) Earlier operating systems do not have
sufficient infrastructure. Building the port also requires MinGW and
Msys, which can be downloaded from http://www.mingw.org/. MinGW is a
Unix-like build environment for Microsoft operating systems. Msys is a
collection of unix tools required to run shell scripts like
configure. Neither is required to run the resulting binaries; they
are needed only for creating the binaries. We have no intention of
supporting Visual C; their build environment is just too different
from Unix, and maintenance of such a build environment would be too
burdensome.
Steps For Building Binaries
* Download the nightly snapshot tarball from
ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev or checkout via CVS (you will
need bison, flex, and perl installed to build from CVS)
* Run configure (you might need to add the --without-zlib argument,
depending on whether you have installed zlib on MinGW)
* Run make install
Note: it is suggested that you run psql under CMD.EXE., as the Msys
console has buffering issues.
If you make a change that you want to contribute, make a context diff
and send it to the mailing list.
Access
The mailing list for discussion is pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org.
You can subscribe by sending an email body containing the word
subscribe to pgsql-hackers-win32-request@postgresql.org.
Resources
There are several resources that helped us complete this port:
* PeerDirect port of PostgreSQL 7.2 to Win32
(ftp://momjian.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/win32/PeerDirect)
* CONNX Win32 signal
code(ftp://momjian.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/win32/CONNX)
* SRA port of PostgreSQL to Win32 (unfortunately, this is not
publically available because the threaded portion is proprietary)
* CHM help files
(http://www.pgadmin.org/snapshots/help/en_US/pgadmin3.chm)