Re: Installing minimal client libraries on Windows

From: Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl(dot)pgsql-general(at)telemetry(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-general(at)PostgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Installing minimal client libraries on Windows
Date: 2012-12-07 09:39:22
Message-ID: k9sdga$flp$2@pye-srv-01.telemetry.co.uk
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Albe Laurenz wrote:
> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Apologies for this old chestnut, but I think it's a question more often
>> asked than answered.
>>
>> If I want to install a minimal binary libpq.dll on a non-developer
>> machine to support Lazarus/FPC programs, where do I get it?
>>
>> I definitely don't want to tell the users to install a full server, or
>> to build from source. I'd rather not give them pgadmin or psql. I'd
>> prefer not to install ODBC since I need to get at listen/notify that it
>> doesn't support.
>
> You can extract it from the precompiled ZIP archive that
> EnterpriseDB provides.

Thanks, but in the end I installed ODBC as the path of least resistance
and relied on the OS knowing where the DLLs were.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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