Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:40:07 +0200
From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Pinel?= <spinel@noos.fr>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: libpq.dll
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--Le 12/04/2003 20:32 +0200, St=E9phane Pinel =E9crivait :

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| Le samedi, 12 avr 2003, =E0 20:14 Europe/Paris, Mathieu Arnold a =E9crit :
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|> The thing is that I believe that you could find a libpq.dll from the=20=
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|> win32
|> postgresql port, but, you're using V .Net, and so, you should use a=20=
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|> .Net
|> data provider, thus, npgsql, which is just that. If you get npgsql,=20=
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|> you'll
|> have a nice dll you can add to your project's references, and then,
|> using Npgsql;
|> if you use C#, or in your case, well, hum, I'm not quite good enough=20=
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|> visual studio to tell you how to use a dll with your project, but it=20=
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|> must
|> be possible in a way or another.
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| So there is no lib that can be linked without other stuff just like we
| use to do with libpq.a on Darwin (or Unix) ?
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| My app doesn't handle any GUI stuff. It just a libpq C wrapper. My main
| need is to be able to execute "conn =3D PQconnectdb(cinfo);" etc... in a
| Visual C++ project.

Well, I don't know what is the status of the win32 postgresql port, maybe
there is a libpq.dll, maybe not. What I know, is that you can use Npgsql in
a close way from what you use libpq.

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Mathieu Arnold