On Wed, May 3, 2006 23:23, Jonathan Blitz wrote: > Am I correct that downloading and building the source is not connected to > actually installing PostgreSQL itself?
You are. It is not. PostgreSQL itself is the server, which need not run on the same machine that client programs run on--nor does it even need to be the same version. libpq is the client library. You'll find this in the same package as the server, but all you really need to run C-based client programs is this library file. The same goes for libpqxx since it builds on top of libpq. > Either way I am going to have to wait a couple more days until I get my > copy > of VS 2005. > I still have V 6.0 and I understand that it is not supported. Right. A lot of effort went into it, but it just had too many problems. More recent versions are much better. > For some reason, you cannot build DLLs with VC++ 2005 Express Edition. Well, if you don't feel like waiting, it should be possible to use the static (.lib) version of libpq, and similarly, build only a static version of libpqxx. Another advantage of doing that is that you don't need to install any libraries to get your program to run on a new machine. Jeroen _______________________________________________ Libpqxx-general mailing list [email protected] http://gborg.postgresql.org/mailman/listinfo/libpqxx-general
