Re: Postgres on 64bit Windows Server with WOW64

On 7/31/06, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake 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?
>
> no it does not.
> To get 64bit on windows we will need to get VC fully supported for now ...

magnus managed to compile pg on msvc. that would be fast path to 64
bit pg on win 64.

with a little elbow grease, it might be possible to compile 64 bit on
SUA. depending on how you look at it this is not quite native app.

mingw64 does not look like it is coming anytime soon...

merlin