Re: Static PostgreSQL Binaries (Linux + Windows)

Thanks, I'll check it out.

On Sun, Jan 13, 2019, 9:13 AM Zach van Rijn <me(at)zv(dot)io wrote:

> On Sun, 2019-01-13 at 00:51 -0500, Pratik Parikh wrote:
> > Than you. nice to hear from you . Would be able to share the
> > build scripts with community? are they open source?
>
> Hi Pratik,
>
>
> Yes; the build scripts were linked at the bottom of my original
> mail message in this chain: https://git.zv.io/xstatic/builder/
>
> $ git clone https://git.zv.io/xstatic/builder.git
> $ cd builder
> $ ./build postgresql-<release> # 11.1, etc.
>
> Under the hood, the only major "technique" is wrapping the 'gcc'
> command with flags such as '-static' to ensure that everything
> is built correctly, and using reliable toolchains [1].
>
> There is one minor issue in that the postgres build scripts no
> longer appear to support static building [2,3] so it'll attempt
> to build files such as 'POSIX.so' etc. and these cause errors.
>
> The workaround is simply to ignore these errors during build
> until I or someone else can get around to supplying patches (in
> the next week or so; I have other commitments).
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pratik Parikh
>
> ZV
>
>
> [1]: https://musl.cc/
>
> [2]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABFfbXuxyO20JN8T%2BC
> yfSe29T-GTON69FrKHQ%3Dc9jDMxnm6C_w%40mail.gmail.com
>
> [3]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABFfbXvONEKE2Bpnbfm5
> %3Df3fVVLpv6jLVUAhF7iGoWN7a_EeRw%40mail.gmail.com
>
>