Hmmm.. seems like I'm in a dandy of a catch-22 On an earlier post (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2010-09/msg01043.php) I was inquiring about trying to add in Jeff Davis' temporal extension package available from pgFoundry. Based on the facts that: 1) the temporal package installs by using pgxs and 2) pgxs doesn't work with the Windows VC++ build .. I thought it was worth a shot to try building from source with MinGW/MSYS to get the pgxs files... but apparently not -- especially since I'm on Windows XP 32-bit platform (hence the issue with 64-bit datatypes bombing out during make, I presume) So unless I've totally misunderstood, if I go the VC++ route, I can't get pgxs, right? And getting that tool to build/add-in extensions with was my goal in the first place... Thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: Greg Smith [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 10:47 PM To: Turner, John J Cc: Craig Ringer; Rob Sargent; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: installing from source in Windows Turner, John J wrote: > I'm reluctant at this point to wipe out my MinGW and MSYS and start from > scratch with Windows SDK and/or VS-ee... > Well, you should probably get over that, because all of the official builds of 9.0 don't really care about supporting MinGW anymore. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/install-windows.html for notes on this. I wouldn't be surprised to find the capability to build with MinGW is broken in various ways now, because it doesn't get tested anymore that I'm aware of. I gave up on that toolchain the minute the newer Visual Studio alternative was available, and tossing out MinGW for this purpose has been nothing but an improvement for me. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
