On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 06:24:06PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 17:18, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:11 PM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> At work, I've been tasked with providing some Windows connection > >> libraries, etc. Are people still using MinGW, or should I just > >> recommend using a proprietary toolkit to do the builds? If so, > >> which one(s)? > > > > Visual C++ 2005 for 8.3/8.4 or 2008 for 9.0. You can use the free > > "Express" versions, but you'll need the Windows SDK as well with > > those (also free). Setup info is in the docs - note that it can be > > a little painful to get the SDK fully registered with 2005, but it > > seems to be completely automatic with 2008. > > If you download the latest SDK, you don't even need Visual C++ > Express - you can build directly from the SDK. Assuming you don't > *want* the IDE, of course...
Here are a few of the things I'd rather have than that IDE: * Root canal therapy without anaesthesia * Migraine * Windows for my desktop Fortunately, it looks like I'll get none of the above for this project :) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
