Ticket #64 (new enhancement)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 2 months ago

Make libpqxx library setup easy for Windows developers.

Reported by: sourcecode84@gmail.com Assigned to: kirit
Priority: normal Milestone: 3.1
Component: portability Version: 2.6
Severity: normal Keywords: compiling
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Description

For developers who are inexperienced, or have problems building the libpqxx library, this website should offer a direct package download for windows developers that includes ready to use compiled DLL's, libraries and header files ready to be used in Visual C++, Metrowerks Codewarrior C++, Borland C++ or any of the other popular Windows compilers. This is the way to make libpqxx more accessible and attractive for developers looking for alternatives to Micro$osft SQL Server 2005, etc.

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INSTALL (7.6 kB) - added by anonymous on 02/20/08 09:08:40.

Change History

06/08/06 00:26:03 changed by jtv

Packaging and providing binaries for specific systems is properly the job of the package maintainers for those particular systems. What is provided on this site is the "upstream" package, and we don't want to use up space on this server uploading binaries for dozens of platform/compiler combinations.

Moreover, people can expect the upstream package to be up-to-date. I don't have access to a Windows system, let alone any of the compilers mentioned here. Even if I did, I'm not sure the platform supports automation of simple tasks to the extent required to keep those binary packages current with the releases. So the way things stand, any Windows package would run hopelessly behind.

If any Windows user is going to step forward and maintain libpqxx packages for Windows, that would be very nice. We can add a link to the PackageMaintainers page.

09/30/06 03:24:51 changed by jtv

  • component changed from other to portability.

07/09/07 09:34:05 changed by anonymous

Oh, it's been a paink in the ass to build it...

07/10/07 03:41:47 changed by jtv

We need volunteers for this! Is there a Windows user out there who can test and maintain Windows versions?

10/27/07 18:19:24 changed by fernando.a.gomez.f@gmail.com

Building this stuff is a damn PITA. If I can ever compile it, I'll be glad to help you on this.

10/27/07 18:47:44 changed by fernando.a.gomez.f@gmail.com

Finally I made it! So tell me, how can I help?

10/27/07 18:52:03 changed by fernando.a.gomez.f@gmail.com

Finally I made it! So tell me, how can I help?

10/28/07 15:46:54 changed by jtv

I think two things are needed:

  1. A solid review of win32/INSTALL.txt. It really needs someone to go through this as a whole and not just fix mistakes, but also reorder or reword things where it's not clear.
  2. Ways to automate as much of the procedure as possible. Since I'm not a Windows I can't judge how much that would be.

02/20/08 09:08:40 changed by anonymous

  • attachment INSTALL added.

03/25/08 20:09:18 changed by anonymous

  • cc set to abbas_261@yahoo.com.
  • milestone set to 3.0.

03/25/08 20:10:10 changed by anonymous

  • cc deleted.

05/20/08 11:34:50 changed by kirit

  • owner changed from Anybody to kirit.

Ok, I'm doing some work on this for version 3 so I'll assign it to myself.

11/02/08 01:40:18 changed by jtv

  • milestone changed from 3.0 to 3.1.

Add/Change #64 (Make libpqxx library setup easy for Windows developers.)




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