I have looked all over the 'net trying to find some info on how to install this libpq library in my C++ lib directory (and where to find it). I've found something on the postgresql.com website which includes the lib but it's the whole database software, not the lib alone. The stuff on the Koders website is not helping either. So I neither know where to find the lib itself, nor how to install it.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Have you tried on http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/libpqxx/? Here you can download both library and the documentation.
Installation on Linux should be the usual one: configure, make, make install etc.
Last edited by karas; 12-25-2006 at 07:47 AM.
Yes, I have been there and my ultimate goal is using the libpqxx library. But the problem is that libpq is needed for libpqxx to work. So I'm wondering how I can install this library.
libpq is installed automatically with PostgreSQL. If you installed the database server in the default directory (/usr/local/pgsql/), libpq is installed automatically in /usr/local/pgsql/include and /usr/local/pgsql/lib. So, no need for some extra installation
I don't want to install the entire postgres on my computer, only the libpq itself.
From the PostgreSQL documentation:
I suppose that you could do it with the second and third installation but I've never tried this. Also, this is client-only installation, so I suppose that you can write only client applications.Client-only installation: If you want to install only the client applications and interface libraries, then you can use these commands:
gmake -C src/bin install
gmake -C src/include install
gmake -C src/interfaces install
gmake -C doc install
