> > What is recommended now for building PG 8.4 for WinXP? Is it better to use MSVC compiler?>
> MingW is perfectly supported, and we know people use it.
> MSVC is the recommended one I'd say, mainly because that's how the
> official binaries are built, so the results are much more well-tested.
> It also produces builds that are compatible with standard platform
> debugger and profiling tools.
> Magnus Hagander
Thank you very much for your answer.
According to your recommendation I try to use MSVC as described here
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/install-win32-full.html.
I configure options in config.pl and run build. I don't build from CVS and I know from documentation that "Bison and
Flexare required to build from CVS, but not required when building from a release file". But I get the error:
Done building project "pgsql.sln" -- FAILED
Build FAILED.
Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error from "Running bison on src\interfaces\ecpg\preproc\preproc.y"
0 Warning(s)
1 Error(s)
Time Elapsed 00:00:56:12
Maybe I should set some other options in configuration files? I didn't find any information about it in
documentation...:(
Regards, Marina.