Re: Strange Windows problem, lock_timeout test request

On 01/24/2013 01:44 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>> On 01/19/2013 02:36 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>> A long time ago I had a lot of sympathy with this answer, but these days not
>> so much. Getting a working mingw/msys environment sufficient to build a bare
>> bones PostgreSQL from scratch is both cheap and fairly easy. The
>> improvements that mingw has made in its install process, and the presence of
>> cheap or free windows instances in the cloud combine to make this pretty
>> simple.  But since it's still slightly involved here is how I constructed
>> one such  this morning:
> I've used this description, skipping the Amazon part and putting it
> directly on my Windows computer, and it worked.
>
> Except bin/pg_ctl does not work.  It just silently exits without doing
> anything, so I have to use bin/postgres to start the database (which
> is what "make check" uses anyway, so not a problem if you just want
> make check).  Is that just me or is that a known problem?  I've seen
> some discussion from 2004, but didn't find a conclusion.

Did you copy libpq.dll from the lib directory to the bin directory? If 
not, try that and see if it fixes the problem.

>
> What advantages does mingw have over MSVC?  Is it just that it is
> cost-free, or is it easier to use mingw than MSVC for someone used to
> building on Linux?  (mingw certainly does not seem to have the
> advantage of being fast!)

See Craig's email today about problems with SDKs and availabilty of

>
> Would you like to put this somewhere on wiki.postgresql.org, or would
> you mind if I do so?
>
> Thanks for the primer,
>
> Jeff
>