$Id: README.win32,v 1.1 2004-04-29 09:21:28 ivan Exp $ Here is a step-by-step procedure for getting DBD-Pg to work on Windows NT. This Port has been done by Bob Kline . prerequisites: (older versions might also work, but these are the -------------- versions I used) o Windows NT4 SP4 o Visual Studio 6.0 o ActivePerl-5_6_0_613 with DBI-1.13 o postgresql-7.0.2 o DBD-Pg-0.95 Here we assume, that perl and postgresql have been installed in C:\. Now perform the following steps: 1. compile libpq ---------------- set POSTGRES_HOME=C:\postgresql-7.0.2 cd postgresql-7.0.2 mkdir lib mkdir include cd src copy include\port\win32.h include\os.h edit interfaces\libpq\fe-connect.c and add as first statement in connectDBStart() the following code: #ifdef WIN32 static int WeHaveCalledWSAStartup; if (!WeHaveCalledWSAStartup) { WSADATA wsaData; if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(1, 1), &wsaData)) { printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage, "WSAStartup failed: errno=%d\n", h_errno); goto connect_errReturn; } WeHaveCalledWSAStartup = 1; } #endif edit interfaces\libpq\win32.mak and change the flag /ML to /MD: CPP_PROJ=/nologo /MD ... nmake /f win32.mak cd .. copy src\interfaces\libpq\Release\libpq.lib lib copy src\interfaces\libpq\libpq-fe.h include copy src\include\postgres_ext.h include cd .. 2. build DBD-Pg --------------- cd DBD-Pg perl Makefile.PL CAPI=TRUE nmake set the environment variable PGHOST to the name of the postgresql server: set PGHOST=myserver add on the server a postgres user with the same name as the NT-User (eg Administrator) make sure, that your pg_hba.conf on the server is configured, such that a connection from another host will be accepted mkdir C:\tmp nmake test (expect to get errors concerning blobs) nmake install