Thread: How to compile PostGreSQL on Windows 64 bits ?

Hello List,

After having compiled and installed PostGreSQL on IA64, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 AS, I had to do the same thing on Windows 64 bits...
I have read that PostGreSQL wasn't test on Windows 64 bits, is it still
correct ?

My problem is to find how obtain an Unix/Linux environnement compilation
on Windows 64 bits.
Unfortunately, MinGW, Cygwin, and others tools are not available on
Windows 64 bits.

Did somebody already make a compilation on Windows 64 bits ?
Could you give me some details ?

Thank you in advance.

Regards,
Alexandra DANTE

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of
> DANTE ALEXANDRA
> Sent: 13 April 2006 14:02
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Cc: DANTE ALEXANDRA
> Subject: [GENERAL] How to compile PostGreSQL on Windows 64 bits ?
>
> Hello List,
>
> After having compiled and installed PostGreSQL on IA64, Red
> Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS, I had to do the same thing on
> Windows 64 bits...
> I have read that PostGreSQL wasn't test on Windows 64 bits,
> is it still correct ?

Yes.

> My problem is to find how obtain an Unix/Linux environnement
> compilation on Windows 64 bits.
> Unfortunately, MinGW, Cygwin, and others tools are not
> available on Windows 64 bits.

No.

> Did somebody already make a compilation on Windows 64 bits ?
> Could you give me some details ?

It hasn't been done yet. Magnus has been playing with generating VC++
project files from the existing Makefiles which will probably offer one
way to do it, and I've been dabbling with the posix stuff in 2k3 server
R2 (previously Interix) with the aim of building a 64bit server, but
nothing is anywhere near usable yet.

Regards, Dave