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Compiling and installing psycopg
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** Important note: if you plan to use psyopg2 in a multithreaed application
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make sure that your libpq has been compiled with the --with-thread-safety
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option. psycopg2 will work correctly even with a non-thread-safe libpq but
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libpq will leak memory.
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While psycopg 1.x used autoconf for its build process psycopg 2 switched to
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the more pythoning setup.py. Currently both psycopg's author and distutils
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have some limitations so the file setup.cfg is almost unused and most build
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options are hidden in setup.py. Before building psycopg look at setup.cfg file
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and change any settings to follow your system (or taste); then:
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to build in the local directory; and:
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python setup.py install
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to install system-wide.
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Using setuptools and EasyInstall
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If setuptools are installed on your system you can easily create an egg for
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psycopg and install it. Download the source distribution (if you're reading
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this file you probably already have) and then edit setup.cfg to your taste
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and build from the source distribution top-level directory using:
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Compiling under Windows with mingw32
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You can compile psycopg under Windows platform with mingw32
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(http://www.mingw.org/) compiler. MinGW is also shipped with IDEs such as
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Dev-C++ (http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html) and Code::Blocks
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(http://www.codeblocks.org). gcc binaries should be in your PATH.
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You need a PostgreSQL with include and libary files installed. At least v8.0 is required.
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First you need to create a libpython2X.a as described in
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http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/mingw32/Notes.html. Then run:
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python setup.py build_ext --compiler=mingw32 install
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