Re: Regarding installation of FDW on Windows

On 07/13/2012 08:57 AM, Atri Sharma wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>> On 07/13/2012 08:07 AM, Albe Laurenz wrote:
>>> I have read a report that extensions built with MinGW are compatible with
>>> EDB's binaries if you use --disable-float8-byval
>>> (http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/246-ODBC-Foreign-Data-wr
>>> apper-odbc_fdw-on-windows.html).
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, not always.
>>
>> I had to change how file_fixed_length_record_fdw did its IO before this
>> would work.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> andrew
>>
>>
> Andrew,
>
> I am trying to make pre compiled binaries so that,in case users of my
> project(on windows) do not have a build environment configured,they
> can use the pre compiled binaries to use my project.The best way to do
> this seems to be cross compile.
>
> I tried overriding CC in makefile of my project and setting the value
> of CC to MinGW C compiler,but,it gave errors(header files not found).
>
> What changes should I make?
>


Don't cross-compile. Build on Windows.

cheers

andrew