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The tools for building using Visual C++ 2005, are in the src/tools/msvc directory. When building, make sure there are no tools from MinGW or Cygwin present in your system PATH. Also, make sure you have all the required Visual C++ tools available in the PATH, usually by starting a Visual Studio Command Prompt and running the commands from there. All commands should be run from the src\tools\msvc directory.
Before you build, edit the file config.pl to reflect the configuration options you want set, including the paths to libraries used. If you need to set any other environment variables, create a file called buildenv.pl and put the required commands there. For example, to add the path for bison when it's not in the PATH, create a file containing:
$ENV{PATH}=$ENV{PATH} . ';c:\some\where\bison\bin';
PostgreSQL will build using either the professional versions (any edition) or the free Express edition of Visual Studio 2005. The following additional products are required to build the complete package. Use the config.pl file to specify which directories the libraries are available in.
ActiveState Perl is required to run the build generation scripts. MinGW or Cygwin Perl will not work. It must also be present in the PATH. Binaries can be downloaded from http://www.activestate.com (Note: version 5.8 or later is required, the free Standard Distribution is sufficient).
Required for building PL/TCL (Note: version 8.4 is required, the free Standard Distribution is sufficient).
Bison and Flex are required to build from Git, but not required when building from a release file. Note that only Bison 1.875 or versions 2.2 and later will work. Bison and Flex can be downloaded from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net.
Diff is required to run the regression tests, and can be downloaded from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net.
Gettext is required to build with NLS support, and can be downloaded from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net. Note that binaries, dependencies and developer files are all needed.
It is recommended that you upgrade to the latest available version of the Microsoft Platform SDK, available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/.
Required for Kerberos authentication support. MIT Kerberos can be downloaded from http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/dist/index.html.
Required for XML support. Binaries can be downloaded from http://zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml or source from http://xmlsoft.org. Note that libxml2 requires iconv, which is available from the same download location.
Required for SSL support. Binaries can be downloaded from http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html or source from http://www.openssl.org.
Required for UUID-OSSP support (contrib only). Source can be downloaded from http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/.
Required for building PL/Python. Binaries can be downloaded from http://www.python.org.
Required for compression support in pg_dump and pg_restore. Binaries can be downloaded from http://www.zlib.net.
To build all of PostgreSQL in release configuration (the default), run the command:
build
To build all of PostgreSQL in debug configuration, run the command:
build DEBUG
To build just a single project, for example psql, run the commands:
build psql
build DEBUG psql
To change the default build configuration to debug, put the following in the buildenv.pl file:
$ENV{CONFIG}="Debug";
It is also possible to build from inside the Visual Studio GUI. In this case, you need to run:
perl mkvcbuild.pl
from the command prompt, and then open the generated pgsql.sln (in the root directory of the source tree) in Visual Studio.
Most of the time, the automatic dependency tracking in Visual Studio will handle changed files. But if there have been large changes, you may need to clean the installation. To do this, simply run the clean.bat command, which will automatically clean out all generated files. You can also run it with the dist parameter, in which case it will behave like make distclean and remove the flex/bison output files as well.
By default, all files are written into a subdirectory of the debug or release directories. To install these files using the standard layout, and also generate the files required to initialize and use the database, run the command:
perl install.pl c:\destination\directory
To run the regression tests, make sure you have completed the build of all required parts first. Also, make sure that the DLLs required to load all parts of the system (such as the Perl and Python DLLs for the procedural languages) are present in the system path. If they are not, set it through the buildenv.pl file. To run the tests, run one of the following commands from the src\tools\msvc directory:
vcregress check
vcregress installcheck
vcregress plcheck
vcregress contribcheck
To change the schedule used (default is the parallel), append it to the command line like:
vcregress check serial
For more information about the regression tests, see Chapter 29.
Building the PostgreSQL documentation in HTML format requires several tools and files. Create a root directory for all these files, and store them in the subdirectories in the list below.
Download from http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=openjade&filename=openjade-1_3_1-2-bin.zip and uncompress in the subdirectory openjade-1.3.1.
Download from http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/4.2/docbook-4.2.zip and uncompress in the subdirectory docbook.
Download from http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=docbook&filename=docbook-dsssl-1.79.zip and uncompress in the subdirectory docbook-dsssl-1.79.
Download from http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ISOEnts.zip and uncompress in the subdirectory docbook.
Edit the buildenv.pl file, and add a variable for the location of the root directory, for example:
$ENV{DOCROOT}='c:\docbook';
To build the documentation, run the command builddoc.bat. Note that this will actually run the build twice, in order to generate the indexes. The generated HTML files will be in doc\src\sgml.