Re: Standalone Windows Installation

Thanks. I will try it out. This sounds like the solution I was looking for.

Dave Page schrieb:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Jörn Heid <heid@hs-heilbronn.de> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your answer but here's the longer question as asked in the posts
>> before:
>>
>> How can I use the official "Postgres without installer" distribution without
>> compiling the sources for myself and without having to install the
>> redistribution application of the VC dlls so that I can distribute an
>> "all-inside" folder with all needed binaries, dlls and so on for all Windows
>> installations? Is it possible perhaps with a manifest file and bundled dlls
>> or is it impossible?
>>
>
> It should be possible by including the contents of the runtime
> directory (normally found in
> C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.762_x-ww_6b128700)
> and the corresponding manifest found in C:\Windows\WinSxS\Manifests
> (probably renamed to Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest) in the PostgreSQL
> bin directory. This is essentially what we do with pgAdmin.
>
> We did run into some problems with this method with the server though
> and found it was more reliable to install them as side by side
> assemblies in the global cache. I forget the details, but it might
> have been that libraries in the PG lib directory weren't correctly
> finding the runtimes in the bin directory (which would usually work
> for regular DLLs).
>
>

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