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<chapter id="install-win32">
<title>Installation on <productname>Windows</productname></title>
<indexterm>
<primary>installation</primary>
<secondary>on Windows</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>
Although <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> is written for
Unix-like operating systems, the C client library
(<application>libpq</application>) and the interactive terminal
(<application>psql</application>) can be compiled natively under
Windows. The makefiles included in the source distribution are
written for <productname>Microsoft Visual C++</productname> and will
probably not work with other systems. It should be possible to
compile the libraries manually in other cases.
</para>
<tip>
<para>
If you are using Windows 98 or newer you can build and use all of
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> <quote>the Unix way</quote>
if you install the <productname>Cygwin</productname> toolkit first.
In that case see <xref linkend="installation">.
</para>
</tip>
<para>
To build everything that you can on
<productname>Windows</productname>, change into the
<filename>src</filename> directory and type the command
<screen>
<userinput>nmake /f win32.mak</userinput>
</screen>
This assumes that you have <productname>Visual C++</productname> in
your path.
</para>
<para>
The following files will be built:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>interfaces\libpq\Release\libpq.dll</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The dynamically linkable frontend library
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>interfaces\libpq\Release\libpqdll.lib</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Import library to link your program to <filename>libpq.dll</filename>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>interfaces\libpq\Release\libpq.lib</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Static library version of the frontend library
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>bin\psql\Release\psql.exe</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> interactive terminal
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>
The only file that really needs to be installed is the
<filename>libpq.dll</filename> library. This file should in most
cases be placed in the <filename>WINNT\SYSTEM32</filename> directory
(or in <filename>WINDOWS\SYSTEM</filename> on a Windows 95/98/ME
system). If this file is installed using a setup program, it should
be installed with version checking using the
<symbol>VERSIONINFO</symbol> resource included in the file, to
ensure that a newer version of the library is not overwritten.
</para>
<para>
If you plan to do development using <application>libpq</application> on this machine, you will
have to add the <filename>src\include</filename> and
<filename>src\interfaces\libpq</filename> subdirectories of the
source tree to the include path in your compilers settings.
</para>
<para>
To use the libraries, you must add the
<filename>libpqdll.lib</filename> file to your project. (In Visual
C++, just right-click on the project and choose to add it.)
</para>
</chapter>
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