Priess Stefan <[email protected]> writes:
> up to version 9.6.22 there was a win32.mak file in the src/interfaces/libpw
> folder which could be used to compile a static postgres.lib using nmake.
> Since Postgres 10 this file has been removed.
Yup. It didn't really work right and there was insufficient interest
in maintaining it.
> Is it still possilbe to build a static postgres.lib for windows ? And if so,
> how do I do it.
Run the normal build process using MSVC, and then just take libpq.lib
from the results. On any modern machine that's just going to take
a few minutes, so it's not worth maintaining a separate libpq-only
build path.
regards, tom lane
