Re: Compiling under MSYS and Windows 7

"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> It seems like you have a pretty nonfunctional build environment :-(
> I'm not sure that mingw can be expected to work in 64-bit windows.

I have successfully built other libraries/packages (wxWidgets, xerces-c,
boost) using this toolchain, so I believe that it is working but maybe
PostgreSQL wants something that the others didnt?
Can you suggest anything to try, short of making a new toolchain?

Ill post the original libpq.dll problem to the bugs list now.

Regards
Bidski

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From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 2:55 AM
To: "Bidski" <bidski(at)bigpond(dot)net(dot)au>
Cc: <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Compiling under MSYS and Windows 7

> "Bidski" <bidski(at)bigpond(dot)net(dot)au> writes:
>> Can anyone tell me what is going on here?
>
>
> The bit with the original libpq.dll not being recognizable might be
> worth reporting as a bug. PG's support for 64-bit windows is itself
> pretty wet behind the ears, so maybe there's a real problem there.
> The other stuff looks like problems with your toolchain to me.
>
> regards, tom lane
>