Thread: Postgresql INSTALL-file & Windows

Hi!

In the INSTALL file, it says (under "Unsupported platforms"):      Windows   x86        v6.3     1998-03-01    not
librarycompatible;                                                   client side maybe; use
                     ODBC/JDBC
 

      Note that Windows ports of the frontend are       apparently possible using third-party Posix porting       tools
andlibraries.
 

I believe the client libraries (at least libpq) are available in native
Win32 since version 6.4.

//Magnus

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> Here is a first try.
> So, please take a look at it and see if it'll do.

It'll do :) I made very minor typo changes (things which are caught
immediately by the html generator so it was really easy).

For markup, there are one or two places where fancier markup would work,
but what you have is just fine. For example, in one place you have an
aside in parens about something specific to VC++, and that could be
marked up as a <tip> or <note>. But that's _really_ not a problem.

> I'm going to try to whip up some precompiled binaries for it too,
> tomorrow. Perhaps we should put a blurb in about that?

Yes. Here is the modified file back (note the minor name change) if you
want to mention it in there. Byron has some compiled binaries for Win32
ODBC, and I might post compiled binaries for Linux ODBC, so we should
figure out where to put these kinds of binaries. There probably should
be a win32 directory of some sort on the ftp site.

I'll commit to the cvs tree in a day or two, or after you have more
changes if those are coming earlier.

Thanks for the work!

                  - Tom

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Ok :-)


> > I'm going to try to whip up some precompiled binaries for it too, 
> > tomorrow. Perhaps we should put a blurb in about that?
> 
> Yes. Here is the modified file back (note the minor name 
> change) if you
> want to mention it in there. Byron has some compiled binaries 
> for Win32
> ODBC, and I might post compiled binaries for Linux ODBC, so we should
> figure out where to put these kinds of binaries. There probably should
> be a win32 directory of some sort on the ftp site.
There is a /pub/non-unix on the ftp server, which now only contains "os2".
Perhaps create a subdir for "win32" in there, or something?
I'll be working on the binaries soon. Where should I put them once done?
Mail to you, or somebody? Can't find any incoming directory on the ftp...
No idea to put in anything in the docs before we can say where it is
located...

//Magnus

> > > I'm going to try to whip up some precompiled binaries for it too,
> > > tomorrow. Perhaps we should put a blurb in about that?
> > Byron has some compiled binaries for Win32
> > ODBC, and I might post compiled binaries for Linux ODBC,
> > There probably should
> > be a win32 directory of some sort on the ftp site.
> There is a /pub/non-unix on the ftp server, which now only contains 
> "os2". Perhaps create a subdir for "win32" in there, or something?

OK, Marc, do you have a preferred layout for where various kinds of
binaries or other distribution packages should go?

Right now there is:
 bindist - Solaris v6.3 binaries non-unix/os2 - OS2 v6.3 client-side binaries odbc - win32 odbc source and binaries

> I'll be working on the binaries soon. Where should I put them once 
> done? Mail to you, or somebody? Can't find any incoming directory on 
> the ftp... No idea to put in anything in the docs before we can say 
> where it is located...

Magnus is building some WIN32 client-side binaries and needs a place to
put them.

So I just created: doc - tar files of daily builds of current html documentation .incoming - world-writable file
dropoff

I have no write privileges in /pub/non-unix, so could not add a win32
directory. Also, I noticed that there are still some ".old" directories
in /home/projects/pgsql/ftp/www/html/docs, which I had renamed a long
time ago since I did not have delete privileges for the original
directories and files but was able to rename them. These should be
deleted.

Anyway, let me know what you would prefer, and if you want me to set it
up perhaps you can chmod/chown the ftp and html/docs directories to
allow me to make the changes.

TIA
                      - Tom

> > I'll be working on the binaries soon. Where should I put them once 
> > done? Mail to you, or somebody? Can't find any incoming 
> directory on 
> > the ftp... No idea to put in anything in the docs before we can say 
> > where it is located...
> 
> Magnus is building some WIN32 client-side binaries and needs 
> a place to put them.
> 
> So I just created:
>   doc - tar files of daily builds of current html documentation
>   .incoming - world-writable file dropoff
Ok. I've put the client binaries in the .incoming directory. When it's moved
somewhere permanently, whoever does that should add a blurb in the Win32
install notes.


//Magnus