Novice Guide to PostgreSQL compilation on Windows

V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems] wrote:

Hi,

I was successfully today with installation of MinGW MinSys and then
compilation of PostgreSQL on an
WindowsXP SP1.

I have documented all my steps for my convenience and would like to
know if someone else needs it or more appropriately
would the document be accepted as PostgreSQL Windows How to ?

Kindly tell me know
1. How can I contribute this document to the comunity
2. Who is responsible for keeping the Windows Docs.

Some Spec about the document :
1. It is written in OpenOffice
2. With help of versioning system of Openoffice we can handle the
changes in future

Could you please post it on a webpage? When everybody gets to look at it and
refine it, possibly it can be included in postgresql documentation.

Personally I am eagerly waiting to try postgresql on windows sicne I don't get
to use linux much these days..:-(

Shridhar

Hi ,

Could you please post it on a webpage? When everybody gets to look at
it and refine it, possibly it can be included in postgresql
documentation.

I could have done it with web page but OpenOffice gives an ugly face to
the export thus I am uploading a PDF format file
at
http://vishalkashyap.speedpost.net/1_beta.zip

Kindly go through the same and let me know short comings at aspire420<NO
BAM>@hotpop.com

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V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems] wrote:

Hi,

I was successfully today with installation of MinGW MinSys and then
compilation of PostgreSQL on an
WindowsXP SP1.

Hi I tried what you suggested. I had to install flex and bison, but I
still get the following error when I try to 'make':

gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wmissing-declarations -DPGDATADIR=\"/usr/local/pgsql/share\" -DFRONTEND
-I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../src/include
-I./src/include/port/win32 -DEXEC_BACKEND
"-I../../../src/include/port/win32" -c -o initdb.o initdb.c
gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wmissing-declarations initdb.o exec.o -L../../../src/interfaces/libpq
-lpq -L../../../src/port -lreadline -lwsock32 -lm -lpgport -lws2_32
-o initdb.exe
../../../src/port/libpgport.a(pipe.o)(.text+0x27):pipe.c: undefined
reference to `pgwin32_socket'
../../../src/port/libpgport.a(pipe.o)(.text+0xbc):pipe.c: undefined
reference to `pgwin32_socket'
../../../src/port/libpgport.a(pipe.o)(.text+0xd3):pipe.c: undefined
reference to `pgwin32_connect'
../../../src/port/libpgport.a(pipe.o)(.text+0xe5):pipe.c: undefined
reference to `pgwin32_accept'
../../../src/port/libpgport.a(pipe.o)(.text+0x154):pipe.c: undefined
reference to `pgwin32_recv'
make[3]: *** [initdb] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/fab/postgresql-snapshot/src/bin/initdb'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/fab/postgresql-snapshot/src/bin'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/fab/postgresql-snapshot/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Do you know what I can do about it? Thanks for help
Fabienne

hm... sorry!
WinXP, SP1. all the latest version of the GNU software, the snapshot
from May 14th.
Thanks a lot
Fabienne