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   9 <h1 style="text-align: center;">Compiling PostgreSQL On Native Win32 FAQ<br>
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  11 <P>Last updated: Thu Oct 14 18:22:57 EDT 2004</P>
  12 <P>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian &lt;<A href=
  13 "mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</A>&gt;<BR>
  14 </P>
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  16 <P>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at <A href=
  17 "http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_MINGW.html">
  18 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_MINGW.html</A>.</P>
  19
  20 <P>The FAQ Running & Installing PostgreSQL On Native Windows is at <A href=
  21 "http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/faq/FAQ_windows.html">
  22 http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/faq/FAQ_windows.html</A>.</P>
  23
  24 <p>The native Win32 port is built from source using MinGW tools.&nbsp;
  25 There is also a precompiled binary installer called <span
  26  style="font-style: italic;">pginstaller</span> which you can find at
  27 from <a href="http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller">http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller</a>.&nbsp;
  28 It is a fully native build and uses no additional software like MinGW.
  29 The ready-made installer files are available on the main PostgreSQL ftp servers
  30 in the binary/win32 directory.
  31 <br>
  32 </p>
  33 <h2>Tools for Building Binaries<br>
  34 </h2>
  35 <p> The native Win32 port requires a 32-bit NT-based Microsoft
  36 operating
  37 system, like Windows NT 4, Windows 2000/2003, or Windows XP. (NT 4
  38 is no longer supported since version 8.2)&nbsp; Earlier
  39 operating systems do not have sufficient infrastructure. Building the
  40 port also
  41 requires MinGW and Msys, which can be downloaded from <a
  42  href="http://www.mingw.org/">http://www.mingw.org/</a>. MinGW is
  43 a Unix-like build environment for Microsoft operating systems.
  44 Msys is a collection of unix tools required to run shell scripts like <i>configure.&nbsp;
  45 </i>Neither is required to run the resulting binaries;&nbsp; they are
  46 needed only for creating the binaries.&nbsp; Work is in progress to support
  47 building using Visual C++ in a future version.<br>
  48 </p>
  49 <h2>Steps For Building Binaries<br>
  50 </h2>
  51 <ul>
  52   <li>Download the nightly snapshot tarball from <a
  53  href="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev">ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev</a>
  54 or checkout via CVS (you will need <i>bison, flex,</i> and <i>perl</i>
  55 installed to build from CVS)<br>
  56   </li>
  57   <li>Run <i>configure</i> (you might need to add the --without-zlib
  58 argument, depending on whether you have installed <span
  59  style="font-style: italic;">zlib
  60     </span>on MinGW)</li>
  61   <li>Run <i>make install</i></li>
  62 </ul>
  63 Note:&nbsp; it is suggested that you run <i>psql</i> under <i>CMD.EXE.</i>,
  64 as the Msys console has buffering issues.<br>
  65 <br>
  66 If you make a change that you want to contribute, make a context diff
  67 and send
  68 it to the mailing list. <br>
  69 <h2>Resources</h2>
  70 There are several resources that helped us complete this port:<br>
  71 <ul>
  72   <li>PeerDirect port of PostgreSQL 7.2 to Win32 (<a
  73  href="ftp://momjian.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/win32/PeerDirect">ftp://momjian.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/win32/PeerDirect</a>)</li>
  74   <li>CONNX Win32 signal code(<a
  75  href="ftp://momjian.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/win32/CONNX">ftp://momjian.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/win32/CONNX</a>)</li>
  76   <li>SRA port of PostgreSQL to Win32 (unfortunately, this is not
  77 publically available because the threaded portion is proprietary)</li>
  78   <li>CHM help files (<a
  79  href="http://www.pgadmin.org/snapshots/help/en_US/pgadmin3.chm">http://www.pgadmin.org/snapshots/help/en_US/pgadmin3.chm</a>)</li>
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