Re: Windows Tools

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 17:18, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:11 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> At work, I've been tasked with providing some Windows connection
>> libraries, etc.  Are people still using MinGW, or should I just
>> recommend using a proprietary toolkit to do the builds?  If so, which
>> one(s)?
>
> Visual C++ 2005 for 8.3/8.4 or 2008 for 9.0. You can use the free
> "Express" versions, but you'll need the Windows SDK as well with those
> (also free). Setup info is in the docs - note that it can be a little
> painful to get the SDK fully registered with 2005, but it seems to be
> completely automatic with 2008.

If you download the latest SDK, you don't even need Visual C++ Express
- you can build directly from the SDK. Assuming you don't *want* the
IDE, of course...

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