Re: compiling on windows with mingw

You made no mention that you read our FAQ_MINGW file, which is the
definitive document on how to build on Win32.

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Kevin Grittner wrote:
> We have spent a lot of time on this to be able to do Windows builds
> during the beta cycle. Our DBA manager is going to start with a
> fresh machine and attempt to do a full setup from our existing notes
> and produce a "how to" document. When we have this, somebody
> here will submit it to the community in hopes the it can be included
> in the documentation and will help others.
>
> In the meantime, I'll try to extract something from my notes here on
> what we did on a fresh machine to get the 8.1.0 release running on
> a fresh Windows Server 2003 machine.
>
> Install msys.1.9.10.exe -- taking all defaults.
> Install MinGW-4.1.1.exe -- taking all defaults.
> >From an msys shell, update /etc/fstab as recommended:
>
> C:/MinGW /mingw
>
> Get a fresh msys window and execute gcc --version
> to confirm that things are set up right so far.
>
> Install bison-1.875-4.exe changing directory to C:\GnuWin32
> (We had problems with the space-embedded derault path.)
> Install flex-2.5.4a-1.exe -- taking defaults
> (It picked up the C:\GnuWin32 from previous install.)
> Install zlib-1.2.3.exe -- taking defaults (same)
>
> Update /etc/fstab to add a mount point for C:\GnuWin32.
> Update /etc/profile to add /gnuwin32/bin to the msys PATH.
> (The previous step may not be needed if you do the following step.)
> Add C:\GnuWin32\bin to the Windows Path environment variable.
> (I don't remember why we did that -- something wasn't working and
> we fixed it that way.)
>
> Unzip zlib-1.2.3-lib.zip on top of mingw directory.
> (This corrected run-time problems.)
>
> Using Windows management applications, create a postgres user
> with no group memberships.
>
> (Somehow we had a /home/postgres dir -- don't remember how
> we created it -- might matter because of permissions.)
> Copy postgresql-8.1.0.tar.gz into \msys\1.0\home\postgres dir.
>
> >From a cmd window >runas /user:postgres cmd
> >From the resulting cmd window:
> > cd \msys\1.0.\bin
> > C:\msys\1.0\msys.bat
> >From the resulting msys window (as postgres):
> $ cd /home/postgres
> $ tar -xzf postgresql-8.1.0.tar.gz
> $ cd postgresql-8.1.0
> $ ./configure <your preferred switches here>
> $ make
> $ make check
>
> Open an msys window as administrator.
> $ cd /home/postgres/postgresql-8.1.0/
> $ make install
>
> Using explorer copy C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql to your preferred
> location. (We used C:\pgsql.)
> Add to the Windows Path environment variable:
> C:\pgsql\bin;C:\pgsql\lib
>
> Add postgres to the Users group (needed just for this step).
> Get cmd session as postgres.
> Make your directories. For example:
> > G:
> > mkdir pgsql
> > mkdir pgsql\data
> > initdb <your preferred switches here>
>
> Remove the Users group from the postgres login.
>
> At this point we could run pg_ctl to start the postmaster.
> We still needed to modify the conf files, and set up the
> Windows service for PostgreSQL.
>
> I'm only reporting what worked for us. Use at your own risk,
> as there may be better practice documented that we've missed,
> and this represents preliminary notes on a single successful
> install. (As always, comments and pointers welcome.)
>
> I hope it is of some help.
>
> -Kevin
>
>
> >>> "Gevik babakhani" <gevik(at)xs4all(dot)nl> >>>
> I would like to compile the code on windows. I understand I need mingw.
>
> on the mingw site there are may packages to download and install.
>
>
>
> Does anyone know which ones to download install in order to compile pg.
>
>
>
> Thanx,
>
> Gevik.
>
>
>
>
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