Installation on Win32

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# Chapter 6. Installation on Win32

> Build and installation instructions for Postgres v6.4 client libraries on Win32.

# Building the libraries

The makefiles included in Postgres are written for Microsoft Visual C++, and will probably not work with other systems. It should be possible to compile the libaries manually in other cases.

To build the libraries, change directory into the `src` directory, and type the commands

    copy include\config.h.win32 include\config.h
    nmake /f win32.mak

This assumes that you have Visual C++ in your path.

The following files will be built:

- `interfaces\libpq\Release\libpq.dll` - The dynamically linkable frontend library

- `interfaces\libpq\Release\libpqdll.lib` - Import library to link your program to libpq.dll

- `interfaces\libpq\Release\libpq.lib` - Static library version of the frontend library

- `bin\psql\Release\psql.exe` - The Postgresql interactive SQL monitor

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