> > > That's on my TODO list to write, but I haven't had the > time yet. The > > > basic is that if you disable everything in the config.pl > file, you > > > can run with almost no external dependencies. You'll need > flex+bison > > > if buliding off CVS. > > > Oh, and it requires Visual C++ 2005. Should work fine with the > > > Express version. > > > > I grabbed flex and bison from GNUwin32 > > (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bison.htm) > > This appears to not work out well. If I copy the generated > files from bison from a linux box, then they are ok, but if I > try to use ones generated using that version of bison, it > does not compile. I'll look around for a different one.
That's the onw I'm using. However, be sure to get version 1.875-4, and *not* version 2.1. > > All right, I started off by commenting out almost all of > the options > > in config.pl, and then ran build.bat from my "visual studio 2005 > > command prompt" (the express version). It said that > "Pthreads is required". > > Which pthreads implementation is this, and where can I get it? > > > > Also, which zlib build for windows is the correct one? There are > > apparently many different ways to build it. > > I grabbed the zlib dll from www.zlib.net, and pthreads from > ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/pthreads-win32/ and these seem > to compile. Those are the ones. Should work fine to use the binaries as well, no need to compile yourself. > I ran into an issue where if I tried to compile using the > batch file it would fail with a bunch of errors about not > finding windows.h, even when I loaded the environment file > from the platform sdk. I had more success opening the > solution with the gui, but it is not entirely clear which > projects I may need to build in which order. I got the > postgres project to compile, so I guess that's a start. If you do "build solution" it should build all project sin the correct order - there are dependency references set between them that should take care of this automatically. > Do you have any idea how to get the environment to know where > windows.h is? I even explicitly added the directory to the > INCLUDE environment variable, but it did not work. I will > try switching to short paths in there in case it is an issue > of paths with spaces. In my environment, that gets set when I start the Visual Studio command prompt - that's the whole point abou tusing the VS commandprompt and not a normal one. I think you get a question about integrating the Platform SDK with Visual studio when you install it - any chance you missed that one? > > I already have ActivePerl and ActivePython installed, so > those should > > work out. I am not really concerned about krb5 and ldap, > so as long > > as commenting them out will disable them, that is good. You can safely leave LDAP in, because it uses only the builtin functionality in the OS and no external dependencies. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
