Re: Win32 mingw libpq.dll

Ian Harding wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am not posting to a newsgroup because I don't have membership
> in any but -general and this seems more -specific.
>
> I have msys and mingw working fine.
>
> I want to try out libpqxx but can't build it without having
> libpq installed. So, I tried downloading postgresql 7.4.1
> source and extracting it in my msys install under /usr/local/.
> Then I did ./configure --without-zlib, then cd to
> src/interfaces/libpq and did make. All goes fine, but I end up
> with only libpq.a.
>
> What do I need to do (short of buying MS Visual Studio .NET) to
> get libpq.dll to build?

I don't know the the difference between a *.a and a *.dll. Can any
Win32 guys can answer this?

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