Re: Postgres on 64bit Windows Server with WOW64

Thanks for the info. Good to hear from someone that has actually used WOW64
successfully.

Thanks,
-Mont

On 8/1/06, DANTE Alexandra <Alexandra(dot)Dante(at)bull(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Hello Mont, hello List,
>
> I am the person who wrote these threads and since, I haven't found the
> solution to compile PostgreSQL on Windows 64 bits...Instead, I used a 32
> bit release of PostgreSQL on Windows 64 bits.
> I worked with "Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition with
> SP1 for Itanium-based Systems". I managed to have an environment of
> compilation on Windows 64 bits via a trial release of MKS Toolkit (as
> mingw does not support 64 bits). It was the only tool which brought the
> shell script (sh.exe) used to launch the ./configure command.
>
> But when I executed the ./configure command, I had errors as the
> configuration of my server was not recognized.
> My problems were in the "config.guess" file. In this file, the case
> "ia64" is only present for Linux, AIX and HP-UX, not for Windows 64 bits.
> I tried to make changes but I didn't not manage to compile PostgreSQL...
>
> If someone manages to compile PostgreSQL without using Microsoft Visual
> C, I shall be interested to know how he made ! :-)
>
> Regards,
> Alexandra DANTE
>
>
> Mont Rothstein wrote:
>
> > Previous threads indicate that it isn't currently possible:
> >
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-04/msg00628.php
> >
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-04/msg01264.php
> >
> > -Mont
> >
> >
> > On 7/31/06, *Joshua D. Drake* < jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
> > <mailto:jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>> wrote:
> >
> > Mont Rothstein wrote:
> > > I wouldn't know that one way or the other :-)
> > >
> > > I was referring to Windows on Windows
> > > 64<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64>
> > > .
> > >
> > > Enables 32bit apps to run on 64bit Windows OSs, in case anyone
> > wasn't
> > > familiar with it (I wasn't until today).
> >
> > In theory you should be able to compile PostgreSQL to 64bit
> > windows. We
> > support 64bit everywhere else.
> >
> > Does mingw support 64bit?
> >
> > Joshua D. Drake
> >
> >
> > >
> > > -Mont
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7/31/06, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
> > <mailto:jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Mont Rothstein wrote:
> > >> > Does anyone have experience with running Postgres on Windows
> > Server
> > >> 2003
> > >> > 64bit using WOW64?
> > >>
> > >> There is a 64bit version of World of Warcraft?
> > >> >
> > >> > In theory it *should* work, but it is always nice to hear
> > from someone
> > >> that
> > >> > has already taken the plunge :-)
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks,
> > >> > -Mont
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
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