Re: Running PostgreSQL on Windows

Christoph Dalitz wrote:
> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:01:07 +0530
> From: "karthikeyan.balasubramanian" <karthikeyan.balasubramanian@aspiresys.com>
> >
> >  I want to work with PostgreSQL on Win98 (that's my development
> > environment).  I know that through Cygwin its possible
> > but I don't that.  I want my Windows PHP program to work comfortably with
> > PostgreSQL much like it worked with Mysql.
> > Why is PostgreSQL not like this but need unix like environment to make it run.
> >
> Note that the Cygwin environment is only necessary to run the PostgreSQL *server*
> on Win32.
>
> On the client side there are (at least) two native Win32 options:
>  - use the Win32 ODBC driver (available as binary from the PG main sites);
>    if you are already accessing MySQL via ODBC that would allow a seamless
>    transition
>  - compile the Postgres client library libpq from the sources with VisualC++
>    and use libpq for accessing Postgres.
>    AFAIK there is currently no binary distribution of libpq.dll available
>    and other compilers than VisualC++ are not supported (not even Borland
>    or MingW32).

7.4 will support the Borland compiler, version 5.5.


>
> As to the server, I believe there is a native Win32 planned for version 7.4.
> But that is usually not such an issue, because the database server has nothing
> to do with the client devellopment platform.

Yes, we are working on that for 7.4.  I was just asking Jan about that
status of that today.

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