Foreign Data Wrapper for DB2 on Windows Operationg System
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For the postgres on Windows i tested with MSYS2 and the MinGW-w64 compiler.

This README contains the following sections:

1. [MSYS2 Installation](#1-msys2-installation)
2. [MinGW Installation](#2-mingw-w64-installation)
3. [PostgreSQL from Source](#3-postgresql-from-source)

1 MSYS2 Installation
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From the downloadpage:
[MSYS2 HomePage](https://www.msys2.org/)
download the 64 Bit package. Install straight forward. Choose an installation path without a space.

More detailed information will be provided on the home page.

Open a MSYS2 64 Bit command window.
For updating the packages call:
    
    pacman -Syu

to update the system call:
    
    pacman -Su



2 MinGW-w64 Installaiton
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In a command window of MSYS2 enter the command:
     
     pacman --needed -S git mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc base level

3 PostgreSQL from Source
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Download one of the source tar balls, uncompressit and deploy in one of the folder you created for build.

In the deployed folder execute the following command:
    
    ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix= < installation directory>
like
    
    ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/c/builds/Postgres/dist

Then execute
    
    make clean all install
and
    
    cd contrib
    make clean all install

Copy the distribution or compress it in an zip File to copy it on another Server:
Set the environment variables in Windows PATH and generated an instanz with:

    initdb --pgdata=c:\data\pgdata105 -username=postgres --auth=trust