Re: [HACKERS] What's left?

Don't forget that Program Files can be on a different drive.. There's a Win32 function you can call that will tell you what the default programs directory is.

It's fairly typical for a Windows setup to let the user choose where to install, and then write that into the registry.. and then the app looks up in the registry where it was installed and uses that as the base path when it needs files.

As far as setup goes, a good option I think would be to use the Windows Installer - AFAIK it's free should be adequate for what Postgres needs.. Visual Studio can prepare a Windows Installer Setup project using wizards.

Another free option is the Nullsoft installer (the Winamp guys) but I'd tend to prefer the Windows Installer just because, well, it's supplied by MS so possibly more likely to do "the right thing".

- Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net]
Sent: Thu 22/01/2004 7:05 PM
To: pgsql-hackers-win32; PostgreSQL-development
Cc:
Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] What's left?

Claudio Natoli wrote:

> * installation directory issues (/usr/local/pgsql/bin won't work too well
>outside of the MingW environment :-)
>

Clearly we will need an installer for a binary distribution. But for now
I suggest that the default prefix on Windows is
C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL


cheers

andrew


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