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diff --git a/src/tools/msvc/README b/src/tools/msvc/README index dc1edae6f0b..e0123a953f5 100644 --- a/src/tools/msvc/README +++ b/src/tools/msvc/README @@ -1,72 +1,11 @@ This directory contains the tools required to build PostgreSQL using -Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. +Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. This builds the whole backend, not just +the libpq frontend library. For more information, see the documentation +chapter "Installation on Windows". -Note that PostgreSQL builds natively with Visual C++. You must therefore -make sure that you do *NOT* have any tools from Cygwin or Mingw present -in the system PATH. Also, make sure you don't have any Cygwin/Mingw -environment variables "leaking" through. - -First, edit config.pl to reflect what "configure options" you want set. - -If you need to modify the environment for calling external tools, such as -flex or bison, create a file called "buildenv.bat". This file will be called -by all scripts before anything is done, so the environment can be set up. -(for example, include SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\some\where\bison\bin) - -Then, to build all of PostgreSQL in debug configuration, run the command - build -from a Visual Studio Command Prompt (to get all environment -variables set correctly). - -To build all of PostgreSQL in release configuration, run - build RELEASE - -To build just a single project, for example psql, run - build psql -or - build RELEASE psql - - -Dependencies ------------- - -The following packages are needed for the different config options: - -pthreads - always required -Download from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/pthreads-win32 - -perl - always required -Get ActiveState Perl from www.activestate.com - -flex & bison - required to build from CVS (as opposed to a release tarball) -Download from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net. Note that bison version 2.0 -will not work. Use either version 1.875, or version 2.1 or newer. -For flex, use version 2.5.4. - -python - required for pl/python -Get from www.python.org - -tcl - required for pl/tcl -Get ActiveState TCL from www.activestate.com - -openssl - required for SSL support -Get from http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html, or build -from source from www.openssl.org. - -Kerberos - required for Kerberos support -Get from http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/dist/index.html - -zlib - required for compression support in pg_dump/pg_restore -Get from http://www.zlib.net - -libxml2 and libxslt - required for XML support -Get from http://www.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml or build from source from -http://xmlsoft.org. Note that libxml2 requires iconv. - - -Code indention --------------- +Notes about code indention +-------------------------- If the perl code is modified, use perltidy on it since pgindent won't touch perl code. Use the following commandline: perltidy -b -bl -nsfs -naws -l=100 *.pl *.pm |