Chapter 17. Installation from Source Code

   Table of Contents

   17.1. Requirements
   17.2. Getting the Source
   17.3. Building and Installation with Autoconf and Make

        17.3.1. Short Version
        17.3.2. Installation Procedure
        17.3.3. configure Options
        17.3.4. configure Environment Variables

   17.4. Building and Installation with Meson

        17.4.1. Short Version
        17.4.2. Installation Procedure
        17.4.3. meson setup Options
        17.4.4. meson Build Targets

   17.5. Post-Installation Setup

        17.5.1. Shared Libraries
        17.5.2. Environment Variables

   17.6. Supported Platforms
   17.7. Platform-Specific Notes

        17.7.1. Cygwin
        17.7.2. macOS
        17.7.3. MinGW
        17.7.4. Solaris
        17.7.5. Visual Studio

   This chapter describes the installation of PostgreSQL using the source
   code distribution. If you are installing a pre-packaged distribution,
   such as an RPM or Debian package, ignore this chapter and see
   Chapter 16 instead.