Hello I am currently working on creating a build system for an open source portable project that should be able to build the project on many platforms, POSIX and non-POSIX such as Windows. Our project has the option for using PostgreSQL. Searching for PostgreSQL includes/libraries is very easy on POSIX and Unices but on Windows one has usually 3 options: - have a relative location to the project source tree where those should be found (like a $project-root/pgsql) - have the user specify the location to them - try to read the location from registry settings Note that these methods do not exclude eachover. The pgsql MSI installer does register a registry key but it's random everytime it installs (probably something MSI choses). I am asking if someone could make it (also) register a fixed registry key pointing to it's install location (from which I could locate the includes/library to use when building our project). This could be useful for other projects too of course. In a similar way MySQL registers the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MySQL AB\MySQL Server 5.0;Location for a 5.0.x version. Could it be possible to have PostgreSQL installer do something similar? Thank you! -- Mihai RUSU Email: dizzy@xxxxxxxxx GPG : http://dizzy.roedu.net/dizzy-gpg.txt WWW: http://dizzy.roedu.net "Linux is obsolete" -- AST ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
