Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-10-04 Thread Jörn Heid
Thanks. I will try it out. This sounds like the solution I was looking for. Dave Page schrieb: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Jörn Heid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for your answer but here's the longer question as asked in the posts before: How can I use the official "Postgres withou

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-10-04 Thread Dave Page
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Jörn Heid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your answer but here's the longer question as asked in the posts > before: > > How can I use the official "Postgres without installer" distribution without > compiling the sources for myself and without having to inst

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-10-04 Thread Dave Page
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When the Windows Installer is out of synch with the installed MS binary as > what happens when you install a Windows Service Pack your install may only > partially install leaving the installation in a unusable state where y

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-10-04 Thread Dave Page
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just prefer to use an os with a package manager. I cannot believe > Microsoft hasn't bothered to at least steal one yet. Why would they? To the extend that such functionality would be required on WIndows, where it's far,

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-10-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so what started off with a Installer version mismatch can easily turn into > hours or even a day long task especially with binaries who may drop into > windows/system32 folder (as is the case when jsvc with msvcrt -this is

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-10-03 Thread Martin Gainty
intended recipient. Sender does not necessarily endorse content contained within this transmission. > Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 21:25:53 +0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation > > Thanks for your ans

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-10-03 Thread Jörn Heid
Thanks for your answer but here's the longer question as asked in the posts before: How can I use the official "Postgres without installer" distribution without compiling the sources for myself and without having to install the redistribution application of the VC dlls so that I can distribute

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-10-03 Thread Joshua Drake
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:02:27 +0200 Jörn Heid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, nobody knows how to make the official "Postgres without > Installer" to work with a normal Windows installation? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_MINGW.html Have fun. Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Compa

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-10-03 Thread Jörn Heid
So, nobody knows how to make the official "Postgres without Installer" to work with a normal Windows installation? Jörn Jörn Heid schrieb: Okay, that's a misunderstanding. I don't want to build it from the sources. I want to take the official pre-built "postgres without installer" package and

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-10-01 Thread Jörn Heid
Okay, that's a misunderstanding. I don't want to build it from the sources. I want to take the official pre-built "postgres without installer" package and put it on a Windows machine to make it work. That doesn't work (while it should IMHO) because of the dependencies. So I just want to add som

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-10-01 Thread Ashesh D Vashi
Jörn Heid wrote: Thanks Ashesh for your answer. I will try to do so although I first have to install VC (or can I just use the directories from WinSxS?). Is there another possibility without setting an environment variable? Think of the simplest distribution of just copying files (e.g. to a U

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-09-30 Thread Jörn Heid
Thanks Ashesh for your answer. I will try to do so although I first have to install VC (or can I just use the directories from WinSxS?). Is there another possibility without setting an environment variable? Think of the simplest distribution of just copying files (e.g. to a USB stick) and "pg_

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-09-30 Thread Ashesh D Vashi
Jörn Heid wrote: Hi. I want to use Postgres without installation. The problem is the dependencies on the Visual C dll (msvcrt). As far as I know it would be possible to include a manifest file (only for libpq.dll?) and bundle the dlls from c:\windows\WinSxS into the bin directory of Postgres.

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-09-30 Thread Craig Ringer
Jörn Heid wrote: Hi. I want to use Postgres without installation. The problem is the dependencies on the Visual C dll (msvcrt). As far as I know it would be possible to include a manifest file (only for libpq.dll?) and bundle the dlls from c:\windows\WinSxS into the bin directory of Postgres.

[GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-09-30 Thread Jörn Heid
Hi. I want to use Postgres without installation. The problem is the dependencies on the Visual C dll (msvcrt). As far as I know it would be possible to include a manifest file (only for libpq.dll?) and bundle the dlls from c:\windows\WinSxS into the bin directory of Postgres. Is this correct?