# Building plruby on Windows

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**Created:** [August 3, 2006, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-plruby-on-windows/101131 "2006-08-03T13:09:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-plruby-on-windows/101131/1 "2006-08-03T13:09:31Z")

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Hello -

Has anyone successfully implemented plruby on the Windows version of  
PostgreSQL?

We have versions of our database on both Linux and Windows. Building  
and installing plruby on Linux was a piece of cake and worked as  
advertised. Windows, however, was a different story - numerous  
Makefile, compile and link errors. We gave up after 3 days, and  
installed plperl instead.

The Windows version of PostgreSQL, as we understand it, is built using  
MingW and Msys. There doesn’t seem to be a standard, syncronized  
distribution of MingW, so we tried several versions of each individual  
package. We encountered different compile & link errors with each  
trial. We used the latest released binary version of ruby (1.8.4),  
compiled with MingW, and we used the latest release of PostgreSQL.

We must be overlooking something… Has anyone successfully built and  
installed plruby for Pg under Windows? If so, what did your development  
environment look like?

Many thanks!  
Tom A.