How to build statically on Windows

From: Dan Davis <dansmood(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: psycopg(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: How to build statically on Windows
Date: 2021-10-04 23:01:04
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Can anyone give me a solution to build psycopg2 statically on Windows?

I have succeeded in building it, but when I run dumpbin /dependents on the
generated file (the PYD file), it still depends on libpq.dll even when I
pass --static-libpq.

*Environment*

- OS: Windows 10
- Psycopg version: psycopg2-2.8.5
- Python version: 3.9
- PostgreSQL version: 14.0 (from ZIP)
- pip version: 21.2.4
- Visual C++ version: 2019

*Procedure*

- Make sure pg_config and psql are in the path
- Download as follows - pip download psycopg2==2.8.5 --no-binary :all:
- Expand the tarball
- Build in that directory as follows (following appveyor.py
<https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2/blob/master/scripts/build/appveyor.py#L291>
)

python setup.py build_ext -l "libpgcommon libpgport"

- Try to verify it is indeed static

dumpbin /dependents
build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\psycopg2\_psycopg.cp39-win_amd64.pyd

*Background*
The purpose here is 2 fold:

* Backfill support for Python 3.9 and psycopg2 to versions that may have
come out before 3.9 was available.
* Make sure our psycopg2 is built against a more recent version of the
PostgreSQL client libraries than 9.x

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