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.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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:<dirpath> win win32.mak.
>
>
> Hope that helps somebody.
>
>
>            - Brian
>
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?
>
>                http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
>

--
  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://candle.pha.pa.us
  pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610) 359-1001
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  13 Roberts Road
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073