Thread: postgres.exe - Entry point not found (PostgreSQL 8.3 devel)

Hello,

I have compiled PostgreSQL 8.3devel using Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 but when I tried to start it (either by using the initdb.exe or postgres.exe) I receive the following error message:

Message title: " postgres.exe - Entry point not found"
Message body: "It wasn't possible to find the entry point of the xmlNewValidCtxt procedure in the libxml2.dll dynamic link library"

However, everything compiled well and without errors (only some warning).

I would be grateful if someone could enlight me on this one.

Marcelo.

Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have compiled PostgreSQL 8.3devel using Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 but
> when I tried to start it (either by using the initdb.exe or
> postgres.exe) I receive the following error message:
>
> Message title: " postgres.exe - Entry point not found"
> Message body: "It wasn't possible to find the entry point of the
> xmlNewValidCtxt procedure in the libxml2.dll dynamic link library"
>
> However, everything compiled well and without errors (only some warning).
>
> I would be grateful if someone could enlight me on this one.

It sounds like you have a binary libxml2.dll that's not matching the
version of libxml that you built postgresql with. Most likely, an older
version is present somewhere in your PATH, possibly the windows\system32
directory.

//Magnus