Can anyone give me a solution to build psycopg2 statically on Windows?
I have succeeded in building it, but when I run dumpbin /dependents on the generated file (the PYD file), it still depends on libpq.dll even when I pass --static-libpq.
Environment
- OS: Windows 10
- Psycopg version: psycopg2-2.8.5
- Python version: 3.9
- PostgreSQL version: 14.0 (from ZIP)
- pip version: 21.2.4
- Visual C++ version: 2019
Procedure
- Make sure pg_config and psql are in the path
- Download as follows - pip download psycopg2==2.8.5 --no-binary :all:
- Expand the tarball
- Build in that directory as follows:
python setup.py build_ext --static-libpq
- Try to verify it is indeed static
dumpbin /dependents build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\psycopg2\_psycopg.cp39-win_amd64.pyd
Background
The purpose here is 2 fold:
* Backfill support for Python 3.9 and psycopg2 to versions that may have come out before 3.9 was available.
* Make sure our psycopg2 is built against a more recent version of the PostgreSQL client libraries than 9.x
