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Compiling PostgreSQL On Native Win32 FAQ
Last updated: Thu Oct 14 18:22:57 EDT 2004
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_MINGW.html.
The FAQ Running & Installing PostgreSQL On Native Windows is at
http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/faq/FAQ_windows.html.
The native Win32 port is built from source using MinGW tools. There
is also a precompiled binary installer called pginstaller which you
can find at from http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller. It is a
fully native build and uses no additional software like MinGW. The
ready-made installer files are available on the main PostgreSQL ftp
servers in the binary/win32 directory.
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 is
no longer supported since version 8.2) 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. Work is in
progress to support building using Visual C++ in a future version.
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.
Resources
There are several resources that helped us complete this port:
* PeerDirect port of PostgreSQL 7.2 to Win32
* CONNX Win32 signal
* SRA port of PostgreSQL to Win32 (unfortunately, this is not
* pgAdmin3 CHM help files
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