I have taken your information, added a Borland download URL, and added it to our documentation: http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/install-win32.html Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian K Boonstra wrote: > All > > 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 > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
