Re: No library found for -lpq

[email protected] wrote:
> Dear DBD-Pg experts!
>
> I tried to install DBD::Pg 1.49 on WINDOWS XP following the README.win32
> file, but I still have serious problems.
>
> Because I found no possibility to compile postgresql from the source files
> (MS VC++ Toolkit 2003 is no longer available and Microsoft Visaul C++ 2005
> Express Edition gives errors), I installed directly the windows version of
> PostgreSQL. ActivePerl 5.8.8.817 is already installed, also nmake and DBI
> 1.50.
>
> So instead of the described steps I did the following:
> - Step 3
>   I copied pg_config.exe directly from my installed PostgreSQL to the
> installation directory ...\DBD-Pg-1.49
> - Step 4
>   Because in my installation of PostgreSQL I didn't find libpq.dll, I
> downloaded postgresql-8.1.4-1-binaries-no-installer.zip, unzipped it to a
> temporary directory ...\postgresql-8.1.4-1-binaries-no-installer (...\ is
> some temporary path).
> - Step 7
>   I set the variables as follws:
>   POSTGRES_INCLUDE=...\postgresql-8.1.4-1-binaries-no-installer\include
>   POSTGRES_LIB=...\postgresql-8.1.4-1-binaries-no-installer\lib
> - Step 8
>   I changed to ...\DBD-Pg-1.49 and called perl Makefile.PL resulting in the
> error message: "Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lpq"
>   Ignoring this I tried to call nmake, but this ended in a fatal error,
> because the linker could not resolve some extern symbols.
>
> Surfing through the net I found answers to that problem like "there is
> missing the library libpq, that is part of the postgres installation".
> Sarching for files like that I found libpq-fe.h, libpq.a, and libpq.dll in
> my paths POSTGRES_INCLUDE and POSTGRES_LIB respectively.
>
> Can you tell me what's going wrong? Are there missing files or environment
> variables? And in case of missing files: where can I get them?
>   


All of this should be unnecessary. Just install the binary package from 
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbdpgppm/  and all should be well.

cheers

andrew