Re: Regarding installation of FDW on Windows

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
> On 07/13/2012 08:57 AM, Atri Sharma wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/13/2012 08:07 AM, Albe Laurenz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have read a report that extensions built with MinGW are compatible
>>>> with
>>>> EDB's binaries if you use --disable-float8-byval
>>>> (http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/246-ODBC-Foreign-Data-wr
>>>> apper-odbc_fdw-on-windows.html).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, not always.
>>>
>>> I had to change how file_fixed_length_record_fdw did its IO before this
>>> would work.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> andrew
>>>
>>>
>> Andrew,
>>
>> I am trying to make pre compiled binaries so that,in case users of my
>> project(on windows) do not have a build environment configured,they
>> can use the pre compiled binaries to use my project.The best way to do
>> this seems to be cross compile.
>>
>> I tried overriding CC in makefile of my project and setting the value
>> of CC to MinGW C compiler,but,it gave errors(header files not found).
>>
>> What changes should I make?
>>
>
>
> Don't cross-compile. Build on Windows.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
>
>

So,I should set up the build environment on windows and then install my FDW?

Atri

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Atri
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