diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index ed5b285a5e..af77352e6e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -193,6 +193,17 @@
example, ICU_CFLAGS=' '.)
+
+
+
+
+ Diff
+
+
+ Diff is required to run the regression
+ tests. On Windows, it may not be available by default.
+
+
@@ -340,6 +351,12 @@
for a list) or at .
+
+
+ On Windows, you can find packages for build dependencies using
+ MSYS2
+ or Chocolatey.
+
@@ -3757,15 +3774,14 @@ xcrun --show-sdk-path
MinGW, the Unix-like build tools, and MSYS, a collection
of Unix tools required to run shell scripts
like configure, can be downloaded
- from . Neither is
+ from . Neither is
required to run the resulting binaries; they are needed only for
creating the binaries.
To build 64 bit binaries using MinGW, install the 64 bit tool set
- from , put its bin
- directory in the PATH, and run
+ put its bin directory in the PATH, and run
configure with the
--host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 option.
@@ -3922,13 +3938,6 @@ make: *** [postgres] Error 1
10 or later.
-
- Native builds of psql don't support command
- line editing. The Cygwin build does support
- command line editing, so it should be used where psql is needed for
- interactive use on Windows.
-
-
PostgreSQL can be built using the Visual C++ compiler suite from Microsoft.
These compilers can be either from Visual Studio,
@@ -3979,174 +3988,6 @@ make: *** [postgres] Error 1
complete command-line build environment.
-
- Requirements
-
- The following additional products are required to build
- PostgreSQL on Windows.
-
-
-
- ActiveState Perl
-
- ActiveState Perl is required to run the build generation scripts. MinGW
- or Cygwin Perl will not work. It must also be present in the PATH.
- Binaries can be downloaded from
-
- (Note: version 5.14 or later is required,
- the free Standard Distribution is sufficient).
-
-
-
-
- Bison and
- Flex
-
-
- Bison and Flex are
- required. Only Bison versions 2.3 and later
- will work. Flex must be version 2.5.35 or later.
-
-
-
- Both Bison and Flex
- are included in the msys tool suite, available
- from as part of the
- MinGW compiler suite.
-
-
-
- You will need to add the directory containing
- flex.exe and bison.exe to the
- PATH environment variable. In the case of MinGW, the directory is the
- \msys\1.0\bin subdirectory of your MinGW
- installation directory.
-
-
-
-
- The Bison distribution from GnuWin32 appears to have a bug that
- causes Bison to malfunction when installed in a directory with
- spaces in the name, such as the default location on English
- installations C:\Program Files\GnuWin32.
- Consider installing into C:\GnuWin32 or use the
- NTFS short name path to GnuWin32 in your PATH environment setting
- (e.g., C:\PROGRA~1\GnuWin32).
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- The following additional products are not required to get started,
- but are required to build the complete package.
-
-
-
- ActiveState Tcl
-
- Required for building PL/Tcl (Note: version
- 8.4 is required, the free Standard Distribution is sufficient).
-
-
-
-
- Diff
-
- Diff is required to run the regression tests, and can be downloaded
- from .
-
-
-
-
- Gettext
-
- Gettext is required to build with NLS support, and can be downloaded
- from . Note that binaries,
- dependencies and developer files are all needed.
-
-
-
-
- MIT Kerberos
-
- Required for GSSAPI authentication support. MIT Kerberos can be
- downloaded from
- .
-
-
-
-
- libxml2 and
- libxslt
-
- Required for XML support. Binaries can be downloaded from
- or source from
- . Note that libxml2 requires iconv,
- which is available from the same download location.
-
-
-
-
- LZ4
-
- Required for supporting LZ4 compression.
- Binaries and source can be downloaded from
- .
-
-
-
-
- Zstandard
-
- Required for supporting Zstandard compression.
- Binaries and source can be downloaded from
- .
-
-
-
-
- OpenSSL
-
- Required for SSL support. Binaries can be downloaded from
-
- or source from .
-
-
-
-
- ossp-uuid
-
- Required for UUID-OSSP support (contrib only). Source can be
- downloaded from
- .
-
-
-
-
- Python
-
- Required for building PL/Python. Binaries can
- be downloaded from .
-
-
-
-
- zlib
-
- Required for compression support in pg_dump
- and pg_restore. Binaries can be downloaded
- from .
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Special Considerations for 64-Bit Windows