Re: What packages from Mingw and MSys are needed? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers-win32

Tony and Bryn Reina wrote:
> 1. Which parts of MSYS and Mingw are needed for the building a Win32 version of PostgreSQL?
>
> There are several packages listed on the Mingw website:
> MingGW-3.1.0-1.exe
> mingw-utils-0.2
> mingw-runtime-3.2

> msys-1.0.9.exe
> msysDTK-1.0.1.exe
> binutils
> gcc
> win32api-2.4
> mingw32-make

Just download Msys and Mingw plain.  The others are breakouts of those.
I realize they are confusing.

> 2. Do I have to build OpenSSL from Mingw to compile --with-openssl? Or does Mingw already have it as a package?

Not sure.


> 3. Does the current PostgreSQL 7.4 compile with Mingw?

Client and libs, yes, server, no.
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