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Though I understand the MinGW environment is recommended for compiling all of PostGreSQL on Windows, one can (as stated in the documentation) use MSVC to compile just the essential client stuff (psql, libpq.dll, libpq.lib).
This is just a note to observe that the same is possible without shelling out for MSVC. Microsoft makes the identical optimizing compiler available in a command-line version at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
It does not have all the libraries you need (in particular MSVCRT.lib)....so it is also necessary to get the Platform SDK at
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/
I also grabbed the .NET framework development kit from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/default.aspx
Once you have installed all that stuff, you need to make sure that nmake.exe, cl.exe and link.exe are in your $PATH (mostly taken care of by the batch-file-command-shell included with the compiler). Then, I found it necessary to modify win32.mak in the interfaces/ subdirectory of the postgresql source distribution with a linker directive telling it where to find MSVCRT.lib. I did this by putting setting LOPT=/LIB:<dirpath> win win32.mak.
Hope that helps somebody.
- Brian
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