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Our MingW FAQ appears to be seriously out of date. Couple of fixes: we

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want to direct MSI downloads to main download site, NT4 not supported
anymore, msvc build env in progress, pgsql-hackers-win32 is no more.

Magnus Hagander
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Bruce Momjian
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@ -23,17 +23,19 @@ http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/FAQ_windows.html</A>.</P>
<p>The native Win32 port is built from source using MinGW tools.&nbsp;
There is also a precompiled binary installer called <span
style="font-style: italic;">pginstaller</span> which you can download
style="font-style: italic;">pginstaller</span> which you can find at
from <a href="http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller">http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller</a>.&nbsp;
It is a fully native build and uses no additional software like MinGW.<br>
It is a fully native build and uses no additional software like MinGW.
The ready-made instlaler files are available on the main PostgreSQL ftp servers
in the binary/win32 directory.
<br>
</p>
<h2>Tools for Building Binaries<br>
</h2>
<p> 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.)&nbsp; Earlier
is no longer supported since version 8.2)&nbsp; Earlier
operating systems do not have sufficient infrastructure. Building the
port also
requires MinGW and Msys, which can be downloaded from <a
@ -41,10 +43,8 @@ requires MinGW and Msys, which can be downloaded from <a
a Unix-like build environment for Microsoft operating systems.
Msys is a collection of unix tools required to run shell scripts like <i>configure.&nbsp;
</i>Neither is required to run the resulting binaries;&nbsp; they are
needed only for creating the binaries.&nbsp; 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.<br>
needed only for creating the binaries.&nbsp; Work is in progress to support
building using Visual C++ in a future version.<br>
</p>
<h2>Steps For Building Binaries<br>
</h2>
@ -66,11 +66,6 @@ as the Msys console has buffering issues.<br>
If you make a change that you want to contribute, make a context diff
and send
it to the mailing list. <br>
<h2>Access</h2>
The mailing list for discussion is
<i>pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org</i>. You can subscribe by sending
an email body containing the word <i>subscribe</i> to <i><a
href="mailto:pgsql-hackers-win32-request@postgresql.org">pgsql-hackers-win32-request@postgresql.org</a></i>.<br>
<h2>Resources</h2>
There are several resources that helped us complete this port:<br>
<ul>