Re: [GENERAL] Anyone doing a native NT port?

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, David Warnock wrote:

> Bruce,
>
> As I am not going to be able to help on the coding I won't try to
> comment on it's dificulty.
>
> But I will ask what realistic expectations are for the current NT port
> using cgywin. My current concern is that the installation is very
> complex and the useability is poor due to the need to enter a cgywin
> shell to access any of the postgresql features.

You don't necessarily need to use the cygwin shell. At work, I have a pair
of utilities that are run by every user as they log on. All these tools
need is one of the dlls (in my case cygwin1.dll) in the same directory as
the tool and it works fine.

PS: There has been in the last few days on the cygwin list some discussion
about the copying of just the dll's with an application. It might be worth
you check their archives.

> a) Is it going to be possible using cgywin to build binaries
> (postmaster, createdb, psql etc) that can be run from a standard windows
> NT command prompt? Or will a cgywin shell always be needed? If this can
> be done then so that we can provide an installation of binaries with no
> unix shell visible then we can probably get this accepted by our users.

See above. Yes, as I've done it.

PS: About 6 months ago (may be longer, I can't remember) for the TASS
project I compiled a standalone psql.exe (aka a Win32 version of the psql
client). Several people found it useful, and they only needed the exe and
the dll.

> b) Is it possible to add support for Windows 9x? If so it anyone working
> on this? (NB I am not considering this as a server platform but for a
> single user system to avoid us supporting multiple dbms) [anyway I don't
> know of an alternative to Postgresql that has the same feature set - I
> need most postgresql features {license and technical}].

I'm not sure why the NT version is only NT specific, as Cygwin runs on
Win95 and 98. Does our NT port use any NT services?

Peter

--
Peter T Mount peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk
Main Homepage: http://www.retep.org.uk
PostgreSQL JDBC Faq: http://www.retep.org.uk/postgres
Java PDF Generator: http://www.retep.org.uk/pdf