Re: Note: Compiling on Windows with free Microsoft compilers

I have taken your information, added a Borland download URL, and added
it to our documentation:

	http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/install-win32.html

Thanks.

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Brian K Boonstra wrote:
> All
> 
> Though I understand the MinGW environment is recommended for compiling 
> all of PostGreSQL on Windows, one can (as stated in the documentation) 
> use MSVC to compile just the essential client stuff (psql, libpq.dll, 
> libpq.lib).
> 
> This is just a note to observe that the same is possible without 
> shelling out for MSVC.    Microsoft makes the identical optimizing 
> compiler available in a command-line version at
> 
> 	http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
> 
> It does not have all the libraries you need (in particular 
> MSVCRT.lib)....so it is also necessary to get the Platform SDK at
> 
> 	http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/
> 
> 
> I also grabbed the .NET framework development kit from
> 
> 	http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/default.aspx
> 
> 
> 
> Once you have installed all that stuff, you need to make sure that 
> nmake.exe, cl.exe and link.exe are in your $PATH (mostly taken care of 
> by the batch-file-command-shell included with the compiler).  Then, I 
> found it necessary to modify win32.mak in the interfaces/ subdirectory 
> of the postgresql source distribution with a linker directive telling 
> it where to find MSVCRT.lib.   I did this by putting setting 
> LOPT=/LIB: win win32.mak.
> 
> 
> Hope that helps somebody.
> 
> 
>            - Brian
> 
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