Although a complete PostgreSQL installation for Windows can only be built using MinGW or Cygwin, the C client library (libpq) and the interactive terminal (psql) can be compiled using other Windows tool sets. Makefiles are included in the source distribution for Microsoft Visual C++ and Borland C++. It should be possible to compile the libraries manually for other configurations.
Using MinGW or Cygwin is preferred. If using one of those tool sets, see Chapter 14, Installation Instructions.
To build everything that you can on Windows
using Microsoft Visual C++, change into the
src
directory and type the command
nmake /f win32.mak
This assumes that you have Visual C++ in your path.
To build everything using Borland
C++, change into the src
directory
and type the command
make -N -DCFG=Release /f bcc32.mak
The following files will be built:
interfaces\libpq\Release\libpq.dll
The dynamically linkable frontend library
interfaces\libpq\Release\libpqdll.lib
Import library to link your programs to libpq.dll
interfaces\libpq\Release\libpq.lib
Static version of the frontend library
bin\pg_config\Release\pg_config.exe
bin\psql\Release\psql.exe
bin\pg_dump\Release\pg_dump.exe
bin\pg_dump\Release\pg_dumpall.exe
bin\pg_dump\Release\pg_restore.exe
bin\scripts\Release\clusterdb.exe
bin\scripts\Release\createdb.exe
bin\scripts\Release\createuser.exe
bin\scripts\Release\createlang.exe
bin\scripts\Release\dropdb.exe
bin\scripts\Release\dropuser.exe
bin\scripts\Release\droplang.exe
bin\scripts\Release\vacuumdb.exe
bin\scripts\Release\reindexdb.exe
The PostgreSQL client applications and utilities.
Normally you do not need to install any of the client files. You should
place the libpq.dll
file in the same directory
as your applications .EXE-file. Only if this is for some reason not
possible should you install it in the WINNT\SYSTEM32
directory (or in WINDOWS\SYSTEM
on a Windows 95/98/ME
system). If this file is installed using a setup program, it should
be installed with version checking using the
VERSIONINFO
resource included in the file, to
ensure that a newer version of the library is not overwritten.
If you plan to do development using libpq
on this machine, you will have to add the
src\include
and
src\interfaces\libpq
subdirectories of the source
tree to the include path in your compiler's settings.
To use the library, you must add the
libpqdll.lib
file to your project. (In Visual
C++, just right-click on the project and choose to add it.)
Free development tools from Microsoft
can be downloaded from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/.
You will also need MSVCRT.lib
from the platform SDK from
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/.
You can also download the .NET framework from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/default.aspx.
Once installed, the toolkit binaries must be in your path, and you might
need to add a /lib:<libpath>
to point to MSVCRT.lib
.
Free Borland C++ compiler tools can be downloaded from
http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_cbuilder.html#,
and require similar setup.