On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Jeremy Drake wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > > I was just trying to build using the src/tools/msvc scripts > > > on windows, and I was wondering if there were any > > > instructions on how to do this, what prerequisites there are, > > > where to get them, etc. I couldn't find any, but I may not > > > know the correct place to look. > > > > That's on my TODO list to write, but I haven't had the time yet. The > > basic is that if you disable everything in the config.pl file, you can > > run with almost no external dependencies. You'll need flex+bison if > > buliding off CVS. > > Oh, and it requires Visual C++ 2005. Should work fine with the Express > > version. > > I grabbed flex and bison from GNUwin32 > (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bison.htm)
This appears to not work out well. If I copy the generated files from bison from a linux box, then they are ok, but if I try to use ones generated using that version of bison, it does not compile. I'll look around for a different one. > > > > If you need any specifics, feel free to ping me for it pending that > > readme file. > > All right, I started off by commenting out almost all of the options in > config.pl, and then ran build.bat from my "visual studio 2005 command > prompt" (the express version). It said that "Pthreads is required". > Which pthreads implementation is this, and where can I get it? > > Also, which zlib build for windows is the correct one? There are > apparently many different ways to build it. I grabbed the zlib dll from www.zlib.net, and pthreads from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/pthreads-win32/ and these seem to compile. I ran into an issue where if I tried to compile using the batch file it would fail with a bunch of errors about not finding windows.h, even when I loaded the environment file from the platform sdk. I had more success opening the solution with the gui, but it is not entirely clear which projects I may need to build in which order. I got the postgres project to compile, so I guess that's a start. Do you have any idea how to get the environment to know where windows.h is? I even explicitly added the directory to the INCLUDE environment variable, but it did not work. I will try switching to short paths in there in case it is an issue of paths with spaces. > I think I found a good openssl install for windows, so hopefully that will > work for me. (http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html) > > I already have ActivePerl and ActivePython installed, so those should work > out. I am not really concerned about krb5 and ldap, so as long as > commenting them out will disable them, that is good. > > > Thanks! > > > //Magnus > > > -- Go 'way! You're bothering me! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
