Re: psql on Windows systems

Am 06.07.24 um 07:51 schrieb Laurenz Albe:
> On Fri, 2024-07-05 at 20:47 +0200, Holger Jakobs wrote:
>>> Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com> writes:
>>>> Recently I had to use PostgreSQL on a Windows based system, and I was
>>>> surprised that the psql tool behaves differently, when it comes to the
>>>> functionality of the readline library.
>> The page https://tiswww.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html says:
>>
>> "Microsoft offers its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as an installable add-on
>> for Windows 10 and Windows 11. It's basically a separate packaged version of
>> the Linux kernel that runs as a Windows service, and you can build and install
>> readline-8.2 within that environment." Maybe it works when the machine doing
>> the compiling and packaging has WSL installed. Would be worth trying, imho.
> Yes, it should be simple to build "psql" with readline in that environment, so
> I recommend that you do that.
>
> I guess the Windows binaries don't want to require the users to install
> Microsoft's Linux emulation.  After all, if you do that, you might as well
> use the ready-made Linux binaries.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>
I think that it would be possible to statically link any libraries which 
aren't available on a standard Windows installation lacking WSL.

Of course, forcing WSL on all Windows users is a no-go.

Maybe this link helps with that:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4737082/statically-linked-correctly-working-readline-library-under-windows

Kind Regards,

Holger

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