If this is not the right list for this problem, could someone please
point me to the right area?
Curran Schiefelbein wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to compile postgres-8.2.0 from source on WinXP-SP2, for use
> with libpqxx.
>
> At first I was able to compile in cygwin with ./configure followed by
> make. However, postgres-8.2.0/src/interfaces/libpq/Debug and libpqd.dll
> were not created, just Release and libpq.dll, much as Brian Doyle (this
> list and
> http://gborg.postgresql.org/pipermail/libpqxx-general/2006-July/001360.html)
>
> and others have experienced. I'd like to get to the point of following
> Bart Samwell's advice to use nmake, but unfortunately something else has
> gone wrong upstream. After accidentally mucking up the directory, I
> re-untarred the postgresql src package, uninstalled postgres packages
> from cygwin and PostgreSQL from Windows, rebooted, and started over.
>
> Now, from a clean src package, I get different behavior from configure.
> Formerly, it seemed to build as for win32. I had a spot of trouble the
> first time through with the compiler finding src/port/pg_config_paths.h
> wile compiling in src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib. This problem did not
> remanifest. Unfortunately I didn't capture the configure output the one
> time it worked, but looking at the output now, configure is using the
> cygwin template rather than the win32 one. Make doesn't error; neither
> does it produce libpq.dll and Release much less libpqd.dll and Debug.
>
> Short of a clean machine with a fresh install of cygwin (which I can't
> afford to do; other software depends on it in fragile ways), I'm
> stumped. Does anyone have any suggestions for getting configure/make to
> produce these DLLs?
>
> I will eventually be compiling libpqxx and then my client program with
> MSVC 2005, so if I am barking up the wrong tree altogether, please do
> say so :)
>
> Curran
>
>