Hi Sibel,
Here's the mail that I posted about 10 days ago about compiling
and debugging postgres on windows. I have used msys/mingw toolkit and
it is the recommended (by pg community) toolkit to compile postgres on
windows.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-05/msg00396.php
Hope it helps. Do let me know if you face any problems.
Regards,
Gurjeet.
On 5/25/06, Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 01:46:19AM -0700, sibel karaasma wrote:
> > Hi I'm a new postgresql user. I wrote ACO (ant colony optimazition) and
> > want to replace it with GEQO in postres/src/backend/optimizer but I don't know how
> > to compile and run the source code :(
> >
> > I installed postgresql-8.1.3 and cygwin but I can not use them to
> > compile the source code. I want to compare GEQO and ACO optimizers performance using a small database
>
> mingw is now the approved build method for windows, and I think there's
> instructions on how to build PostgreSQL with it somewhere, though I
> can't seem to find them now. Though to be honest, you'd probably find it
> easier doing development on any kind of a unix box, including OS X.
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