Re: Regarding installation of FDW on Windows

On 07/13/2012 09:12 AM, Atri Sharma wrote:
> 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?
>

Yes.

cheers

andrew