Re: [HACKERS] win32 8.1 pgadmin dll issues

> > My dev box was running 8.1rc1 and I thought it was time to put 8.1
on
> > it. I downloaded the 8.1 binaries-only dist off of postgresql.org
(bt
> > version), did a binary swap on my server and nothing ran...it
> > turns out
> > all the binaries like initdb.exe, postgres.exe have a dll
> > dependency on
> > various pgAdmin dlls like comerr32.dll and several others.
> > pgAdmin was
> > not installed on my server so nothing worked. I copied the .dlls
from
> > the pgAdmin folder on my workstation and postgres starts up.
> >
> > Normally I roll my own so this may or may not be an
> > issue...but when did
> > initdb.exe acquire a pgAdmin dependency?
>
> It doesn't - they're all libpq dependencies, not pgAdmin ones (though
> pgAdmin does need them because it uses libpq of course).

hm that makes sense...however those dlls are not provided in the binary
only installation but are required because it is compiled with ssl, etc.
The bt page doesn't state if ssl is required or not. I just assumed
pgAdmin because that was the only place I could find a copy of the
libraries.

Merlin