Thread: compiling Postgres using Visual C++ 6.0
Hi, I wanted know if Postgres can be compiled using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler. Is it required to use gcc compiler with cygwin. Jack Ewing __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Neither, as PostgreSQL is now a compiled binary contributed package into Cygwin, and installation couldn't be simpler than using the GUI installer Cygwin with a few lines of command line typing to do once installed. There is however the need to download an extra package and install that thats not in Cygwin, called cygipc. No compilation needed. PostgreSQL needs the cygwin UNIX abstraction layer which provides the UNIX api to programs when they are running on Windows. Hope that helps. Tim At 22:46 09/03/2002 -0800, Jack Ewing wrote: >Hi, > >I wanted know if Postgres can be compiled using >Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler. > >Is it required to use gcc compiler with cygwin.
Can somebody with access to visualC++ make native 7.2 libpq.dll binaires
available ?
TIA
cyril
Cyril, On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:02:20PM +0100, Cyril VELTER wrote: > Can somebody with access to visualC++ make native 7.2 libpq.dll binaires > available ? A better, long-term solution is finish the work to get libpq.dll to build with Mingw or Cygwin's gcc -mno-cygwin. Since you have the itch, would you be willing? Try searching the archives for previous work. I can help you find the posts, if necessary. Jason
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:02:20PM +0100, Cyril VELTER wrote:
> > Can somebody with access to visualC++ make native 7.2 libpq.dll binaires
> > available ?
>
> A better, long-term solution is finish the work to get libpq.dll to build
> with Mingw or Cygwin's gcc -mno-cygwin. Since you have the itch, would
> you be willing? Try searching the archives for previous work. I can
> help you find the posts, if necessary.
>
> Jason
Yes that seems like a good idea.
I've found christof Petig patch and started from that. I've made a new
target for mingw (template, makefile ...)
After some hacks, pq.dll build.
I use mingw under cygwin (mingw is installed under /usr/local/mingw,
/usr/local/mingw/bin first in PATH) and have the following problem :
* since there is no specific uname for mingw there is no way for
configure to choose the correct template (have to force it
with --with-template=mingw)
* there seem to be a problem with make and symlinks. The build work only
when I replace symlink with plain file (no such file or directory error).
This one is quite annoying because of all the symlinked postgres files
(Makefile.port, md5.c dllist.c ....) How does the cygwin build handle that
?
* there is some warning in the compilation about missing prototypes of
GetCurrentFiber / GetFiberData (seem to be a mingw thing ?)
* gethostbyname is not detected properly by configure (need to modifiy
manually pg_config.h)
As of now only libpq can be built by running make in the libpq
directory. Some modifications needs to be make to the Makefile to prevent
building unsupported parts.
I also try to build libpq but 'optarg' 'optind' 'getarg' 'getind' symbol
are missing ....
If there is enough interest (and if I manage to solve previous
problems), I could try to make a patch for introduction in the main tree.
cyril
* Cyril VELTER <cyril.velter@metadys.com> [2002-03-12 13:02 +0100]: > Can somebody with access to visualC++ make native 7.2 libpq.dll binaires > available? I could do that. However, I prefer the GNU compilers. On my homepage, you can find a patch to PostgreSQL which adds Makefiles for building with the the mingw mode of Cygwin. Gerhard -- mail: gerhard <at> bigfoot <dot> de registered Linux user #64239 web: http://www.cs.fhm.edu/~ifw00065/ OpenPGP public key id 86AB43C0 public key fingerprint: DEC1 1D02 5743 1159 CD20 A4B6 7B22 6575 86AB 43C0 reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))
* Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net> [2002-03-13 07:41 -0500]: > Cyril, > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:02:20PM +0100, Cyril VELTER wrote: > > Can somebody with access to visualC++ make native 7.2 libpq.dll binaires > > available ? > > A better, long-term solution is finish the work to get libpq.dll to build > with Mingw or Cygwin's gcc -mno-cygwin. Since you have the itch, would > you be willing? Try searching the archives for previous work. I can > help you find the posts, if necessary. An even better solution is to not use the Cygwin mingw mode, but to use the native mingw build environment instead. Part of the mingw project is msys, which is basically a stripped down version of the autoconf toolchain for *native* win32 programs only. It's available from mingw's Sourceforge site. Btw. I'm currently trying to hack Python's autoconf-based build process for msys/mingw. Gerhard -- mail: gerhard <at> bigfoot <dot> de registered Linux user #64239 web: http://www.cs.fhm.edu/~ifw00065/ OpenPGP public key id 86AB43C0 public key fingerprint: DEC1 1D02 5743 1159 CD20 A4B6 7B22 6575 86AB 43C0 reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))
* Cyril VELTER <cyril.velter@metadys.com> [2002-03-15 17:12 +0100]: > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:02:20PM +0100, Cyril VELTER wrote: > > > Can somebody with access to visualC++ make native 7.2 libpq.dll binaires > > > available ? > > > > A better, long-term solution is finish the work to get libpq.dll to build > > with Mingw or Cygwin's gcc -mno-cygwin. Since you have the itch, would > > you be willing? Try searching the archives for previous work. I can > > help you find the posts, if necessary. > > > > Jason > > Yes that seems like a good idea. > > I've found christof Petig patch and started from that. I've made a new > target for mingw (template, makefile ...) > > After some hacks, pq.dll build. > > I use mingw under cygwin (mingw is installed under /usr/local/mingw, > /usr/local/mingw/bin first in PATH) and have the following problem : > * since there is no specific uname for mingw there is no way for > configure to choose the correct template (have to force it > with --with-template=mingw) This problem goes away if you use msys instead, as you will have a mingw uname there. > [...] > As of now only libpq can be built by running make in the libpq > directory. Some modifications needs to be make to the Makefile to prevent > building unsupported parts. Avoiding to build unsupported parts is the only ugly stuff. It should be perfectly possible to build everything with a mingw/msys toolchain that can be build with Vi$ual Studio, including the C++ libraries, the "easy" libraries, and the ODBC driver. It was just that I didn't care for them, as all I needed was libpq. Gerhard -- mail: gerhard <at> bigfoot <dot> de registered Linux user #64239 web: http://www.cs.fhm.edu/~ifw00065/ OpenPGP public key id 86AB43C0 public key fingerprint: DEC1 1D02 5743 1159 CD20 A4B6 7B22 6575 86AB 43C0 reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))