Thread: Instructions For Building On Windows?

Hi All-

Newbie question that hopefully someone will be able to quickly help me with:
I'm looking for instructions for building Postgres on Windows using Visual
C++ (I'm using 2005 Express Edition).  Is there anything available out there
or can anyone provide me with some instructions?  The install instructions
provided with the source are for Unix and when searching the mailing list or
googling this, I'm not really coming up with anything.

Thanks much!
-Jeanna

I should also tell you that I'm wanting to build version 8.1.4 of Postgres.

Thanks for your help!!
-Jeanna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeanna Geier" <jgeier@apt-cafm.com>
To: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 2:47 PM
Subject: [ADMIN] Instructions For Building On Windows?


> Hi All-
>
> Newbie question that hopefully someone will be able to quickly help me
> with: I'm looking for instructions for building Postgres on Windows using
> Visual C++ (I'm using 2005 Express Edition).  Is there anything available
> out there or can anyone provide me with some instructions?  The install
> instructions provided with the source are for Unix and when searching the
> mailing list or googling this, I'm not really coming up with anything.
>
> Thanks much!
> -Jeanna
>
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Hello Again-

I'm sorry to post this again; I was hoping someone would have responded to
my initial post over the weekend, but no such luck.

I am looking for instructions for building Postgres on Windows using Visual
C++ (I'm using 2005 Express Edition).

If someone could please help me, I would be very grateful!!

Thanks in advance!
-Jeanna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeanna Geier" <jgeier@apt-cafm.com>
To: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Instructions For Building On Windows?


>I should also tell you that I'm wanting to build version 8.1.4 of Postgres.
>
> Thanks for your help!!
> -Jeanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeanna Geier" <jgeier@apt-cafm.com>
> To: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 2:47 PM
> Subject: [ADMIN] Instructions For Building On Windows?
>
>
>> Hi All-
>>
>> Newbie question that hopefully someone will be able to quickly help me
>> with: I'm looking for instructions for building Postgres on Windows using
>> Visual C++ (I'm using 2005 Express Edition).  Is there anything available
>> out there or can anyone provide me with some instructions?  The install
>> instructions provided with the source are for Unix and when searching the
>> mailing list or googling this, I'm not really coming up with anything.
>>
>> Thanks much!
>> -Jeanna
>>
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Please use MINGW for that purpose, haven't tried Visual Studio but MINGW does work on Windows without a problem.

Thanks,
--
Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com )

Building with VC++ is not supported in version 8.1, you need to use
MingW. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_MINGW.html.

//Magnus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-
> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jeanna Geier
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:27 PM
> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Instructions For Building On Windows?
>
> Hello Again-
>
> I'm sorry to post this again; I was hoping someone would have
> responded to my initial post over the weekend, but no such luck.
>
> I am looking for instructions for building Postgres on Windows
> using Visual
> C++ (I'm using 2005 Express Edition).
>
> If someone could please help me, I would be very grateful!!
>
> Thanks in advance!
> -Jeanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeanna Geier" <jgeier@apt-cafm.com>
> To: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Instructions For Building On Windows?
>
>
> >I should also tell you that I'm wanting to build version 8.1.4 of
> Postgres.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!!
> > -Jeanna
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeanna Geier" <jgeier@apt-cafm.com>
> > To: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
> > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 2:47 PM
> > Subject: [ADMIN] Instructions For Building On Windows?
> >
> >
> >> Hi All-
> >>
> >> Newbie question that hopefully someone will be able to quickly
> help me
> >> with: I'm looking for instructions for building Postgres on
> Windows using
> >> Visual C++ (I'm using 2005 Express Edition).  Is there anything
> available
> >> out there or can anyone provide me with some instructions?  The
> install
> >> instructions provided with the source are for Unix and when
> searching the
> >> mailing list or googling this, I'm not really coming up with
> anything.
> >>
> >> Thanks much!
> >> -Jeanna
> >>
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Thanks for the information.  I am now running into some compiling issues --
Please Help!!

I downloaded both MinGW and Msys onto my Windows system (running XP).  I
also downloaded and compiled OpenSSL source since I want to build Postgres
with OpenSSL enabled.

I've read the FAQ link below:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_MINGW.html and read the INSTALL
information.

When I run
'./configure --with-openssl --without-zlib --with-includes=c/mingw/include --with-libraries=c/mingw/lib',
I am getting an error that it cannot find the header file <openssl/ssl.h>,
even though it is located in C:\mingw\include\openssl\ssl.h.  And two
warnings saying that the Include directory and Library directory do not
exist -- even though they do!:

$
./configure --with-openssl --without-zlib --with-includes=c/mingw/include --with-libraries=c/mingw/lib
checking build system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking host system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking which template to use... win32
checking whether to build with 64-bit integer date/time support... no
checking whether NLS is wanted... no
checking for default port number... 5432
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking if gcc supports -Wdeclaration-after-statement... no
checking if gcc supports -Wendif-labels... no
checking if gcc supports -fno-strict-aliasing... yes
configure: using
CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -fno-strict-aliasing
checking whether the C compiler still works... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
configure: WARNING: *** Include directory c/mingw/include does not exist.
configure: WARNING: *** Library directory c/mingw/lib does not exist.
...
checking openssl/ssl.h usability... no
checking openssl/ssl.h presence... no
checking for openssl/ssl.h... no
configure: error: header file <openssl/ssl.h> is required for OpenSSL

Thanks for your time and help!
-Jeanna


----- Original Message -----
From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>
To: "Jeanna Geier" <jgeier@apt-cafm.com>; <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 9:10 AM
Subject: RE: [ADMIN] Instructions For Building On Windows?


> Building with VC++ is not supported in version 8.1, you need to use
> MingW. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_MINGW.html.
>
> //Magnus
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-
>> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jeanna Geier
>> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:27 PM
>> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
>> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Instructions For Building On Windows?
>>
>> Hello Again-
>>
>> I'm sorry to post this again; I was hoping someone would have
>> responded to my initial post over the weekend, but no such luck.
>>
>> I am looking for instructions for building Postgres on Windows
>> using Visual
>> C++ (I'm using 2005 Express Edition).
>>
>> If someone could please help me, I would be very grateful!!
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> -Jeanna
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jeanna Geier" <jgeier@apt-cafm.com>
>> To: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
>> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:11 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Instructions For Building On Windows?
>>
>>
>> >I should also tell you that I'm wanting to build version 8.1.4 of
>> Postgres.
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help!!
>> > -Jeanna
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Jeanna Geier" <jgeier@apt-cafm.com>
>> > To: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
>> > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 2:47 PM
>> > Subject: [ADMIN] Instructions For Building On Windows?
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hi All-
>> >>
>> >> Newbie question that hopefully someone will be able to quickly
>> help me
>> >> with: I'm looking for instructions for building Postgres on
>> Windows using
>> >> Visual C++ (I'm using 2005 Express Edition).  Is there anything
>> available
>> >> out there or can anyone provide me with some instructions?  The
>> install
>> >> instructions provided with the source are for Unix and when
>> searching the
>> >> mailing list or googling this, I'm not really coming up with
>> anything.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks much!
>> >> -Jeanna
>> >>
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