Python PostgreSQL frontend for Win2K with MinGW32 ?

[Gerhard Häring]

Dave Haynes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     This is just as much a PostgreSQL question as a Python one, but here 
> goes...
> 
>     I've been trying to port the psycopg interface to a Win2K client 
> (server runs FreeBSD). I'm using MinGW32 rather than CygWin, and having 
> trouble compiling the libpg library as a DLL. [...]

I'd recommend you statically link in libpq into your Python PostgreSQL 
interface. That's what I'm doing for the win32 releases of pyPgSQL. I'm 
also, like you, using mingw for these and I use this patch I created 
many moons ago:

http://pypgsql.sourceforge.net/misc/postgresql.html

HTH,

-- Gerhard