Re: Manual installation of PostgreSQL 8

Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:56:31 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>

John DeSoi wrote:

>>
>> I just need to be able to get past the initdb failure
>
>
> If you install mingw, then you just compile and make like any other  
> platform with the instructions provided in the main documentation. I  
> never used cygwin, but I assume the process is the same.
>

There's one small wrinkle. After you run "make install" you need to be 
sure that libpq.dll is in a place where it will be found by the programs 
that need it (including initdb). That's why the buildfarm script copies 
it from <installroot>/lib to <installroot>/bin on Windows and Cygwin 
(meaning that we don't have to mangle the path or put the DLL in the 
system folder).

cheers

andrew

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