Hi, I am not very experienced and some of these corrections may be trivial or childish.
I have been following the steps for "Building with Visual C++ or the Microsoft Windows SDK" for 9.6. using Visual Studio 2015. Everything was pretty straightforward aside from a few things:
- I didn't find a config.pl file and wasn't sure if I created it what exactly to put in it (I thought about copy/paste from the "config_default.pl" but decided not to). Instead I added all the required libraries to the system PATH.
It wouldn't hurt to spell that out explicitly, though I would've assumed it was implied by the filename and presence of a config_default.pl .
Please send a docs patch.
- After having successfully run "build" and "install" I was having issues running the regression tests. "vcregress check" ran fine but after that I kept getting this error: ----------------------------------------------------- psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061) Is the server running on host "localhost" (::1) and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? ------------------------------------------------------ Obviously, there was no server running. But I was never instructed to create a data directory or user, and run "initDB" and "pgstl Start" before this step. I think that should be added somewhere between to avoid confusion. (I may be completely wrong and have missed some step somewhere)
vcregress check should create a temporary datadir and start a temporary server. If it fails to do so, there's something wrong with your setup. It's likely this is related to the missing config.pl .
vcregress installcheck (different command) requires an existing running server. But that's not what you ran.