Re: Using VC++ Express to develop pgAdmin3

Jeff Boehmer wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> Thanks. I went back and started over completely. I set my environment
> up exactly as it is in the vcproj file, followed all the instructions to
> the letter and it compiled and ran. I think the problem I was seeing
> was because I had failed to compile some libs as unicode.

OK.

> Note: The build widgets bat file did not work since vcbuild at the
> command prompt could not see the PDK includes and libs. Since VC
> Express could see them, I just opened each project and compiled them for
> Debug and Release.

Hadn't thought of that. There is a project file in the wxWidgets source
that includes virtually all of the sub projects though - you still have
to de-select the builds you don't want, but it saves some effort.

> I had the same problem compiling the libpq.lib file but I used a hack
> where I copied the includes and libs from the PDK into VC Express'
> include and lib directories. I didn't like doing that so I did it on
> another computer.

If you install the windows build of PostgreSQL, and include the
developer components you should get all the libs and headers pgAdmin
needs from PostgreSQL, in a location where it'll find them without
reconfiguration.

> Thanks again for your help,

Pretty sure it was you that did all the hard work, but thanks :-)

Regards Dave