Re: postgres 7.4 build for win

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Amin Abdulghani" <amin(at)quantiva(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <psql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postgres 7.4 build for win
Date: 2005-03-10 18:10:05
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE476AAC@algol.sollentuna.se
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>Hi,
>
>I am trying to build postgres 7.4.5 on windows (200) on
>mingw/msys env. I have installed win32-pthreads to
>enable-thread safet feature. Couple of issues that I
>wanted to check:.

7.4 is not supported natively on win32. If you need it on windows, you
need to use cygwin. If you can, go to 8.0.1 which is natively supported.
(No, it's not just a matter of finding the right way to compile it.
There is a *lot* of code changes between 7.4 and 8.0 for win32
compatibility)

//Magnus

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