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diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ_MINGW.html b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ_MINGW.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d38b7fafb29 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ_MINGW.html @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> + <meta http-equiv="content-type" + content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> + <title>PostgreSQL Native Win32 Status Report</title> +</head> +<body> +<h1 style="text-align: center;">PostgreSQL Native Win32 FAQ Using MinGW<br> +</h1> +<P>Last updated: Fri Oct 8 12:47:37 EDT 2004</P> +<P>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<A href= +"mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</A>)<BR> +</P> + +<P>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at <A href= +"http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/project/win32.html"> +http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/project/win32.html</A>.</P> + +<p>The native Win32 port is built from source using MinGW tools. +There is also a precompiled binary installer called <span + style="font-style: italic;">pginstaller</span> which you can download +from <a href="http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller">http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller</a>. +It is a fully native build and uses no additional software like MinGW.<br> +</p> +<h2>Tools for Building Binaries<br> +</h2> +<p> The native Win32 port requires a 32-bit NT-based Microsoft +operating +system, like Windows NT 4, Windows 2000/2003, or Windows XP. (NT 4 +doesn't support tablespaces because it doesn't support the junction +points needed for symlinks.) Earlier +operating systems do not have sufficient infrastructure. Building the +port also +requires MinGW and Msys, which can be downloaded from <a + href="http://www.mingw.org/">http://www.mingw.org/</a>. MinGW is +a Unix-like build environment for Microsoft operating systems. +Msys is a collection of unix tools required to run shell scripts like <i>configure. +</i>Neither is required to run the resulting binaries; they are +needed only for creating the binaries. We have no intention +of supporting Visual C; their build environment is just too different +from Unix, and maintenance of such a build environment would be too +burdensome.<br> +</p> +<h2>Steps For Building Binaries<br> +</h2> +<ul> + <li>Download the nightly snapshot tarball from <a + href="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev">ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev</a> +or checkout via CVS (you will need <i>bison, flex,</i> and <i>perl</i> +installed to build from CVS)<br> + </li> + <li>Run <i>configure</i> (you might need to add the --without-zlib +argument, depending on whether you have installed <span + style="font-style: italic;">zlib + </span>on MinGW)</li> + <li>Run <i>make install</i></li> +</ul> +Note: it is suggested that you run <i>psql</i> under <i>CMD.EXE.</i>, +as the Msys console has buffering issues.<br> +<br> +If you make a change that you want to contribute, make a context diff +and send +it to the mailing list. <br> +<h2>Access</h2> +The mailing list for discussion is +<i>pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org</i>. You can subscribe by sending +an email body containing the word <i>subscribe</i> to <i><a + href="mailto:pgsql-hackers-win32-request@postgresql.org">pgsql-hackers-win32-request@postgresql.org</a></i>.<br> +<ul> +</ul> +<h2>Resources</h2> +There are several resources that helped us complete this port:<br> +<ul> + <li>PeerDirect port of PostgreSQL 7.2 to Win32 (<a + href="ftp://momjian.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/win32/PeerDirect">ftp://momjian.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/win32/PeerDirect</a>)</li> + <li>CONNX Win32 signal code(<a + href="ftp://momjian.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/win32/CONNX">ftp://momjian.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/win32/CONNX</a>)</li> + <li>SRA port of PostgreSQL to Win32 (unfortunately, this is not +publically available because the threaded portion is proprietary)</li> + <li>CHM help files (<a + href="http://www.pgadmin.org/snapshots/help/en_US/pgadmin3.chm">http://www.pgadmin.org/snapshots/help/en_US/pgadmin3.chm</a>)</li> +</ul> +</body> +</html> |