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Compiling and installing psycopg
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** Important note: if you plan to use psycopg2 in a multithreaded 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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psycopg2 uses distutils for its build process, so most of the process is
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executed by the setup.py script. Before building psycopg look at
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setup.cfg file and change any settings to follow your system (or taste);
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then:
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python setup.py build
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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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Common errors and build problems
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One of the most common errors is trying to build psycopg without the right
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development headers for PostgreSQL, Python or both. If you get errors, look
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for the following messages and then take the appropriate action:
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libpq-fe.h: No such file or directory
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PostgreSQL headers are not properly installed on your system or are
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installed in a non default path. First make sure they are installed, then
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check setup.cfg and make sure pg_config points to a valid pg_config
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executable. If you don't have a working pg_config try to play with the
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include_dirs variable (and note that a working pg_config is better.)
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Running the test suite
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======================
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The included Makefile allows to run all the tests included in the
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distribution. Just use:
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make
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make check
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The tests are run against a database called psycopg2_test on unix socket
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and standard port. You can configure a different database to run the test
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by setting the environment variables:
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- PSYCOPG2_TESTDB
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- PSYCOPG2_TESTDB_HOST
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- PSYCOPG2_TESTDB_PORT
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- PSYCOPG2_TESTDB_USER
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The database should be created before running the tests.
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The standard Python unittest is used to run the tests. But if unittest2 is
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found it will be used instead, with the result of having more informations
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about skipped tests.
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Building the documentation
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In order to build the documentation included in the distribution, use
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make env
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make docs
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The first command will install all the dependencies (Sphinx, Docutils) in
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an 'env' directory in the project tree. The second command will build both
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the html format (in the 'doc/html' directory) and in plain text
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(doc/psycopg2.txt)
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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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easy_install .
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Compiling under Windows with mingw32
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====================================
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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
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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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