Windows release 12.0.2 is linked against external DLLs, but doesn't bundle them or provide instructions on how to get them

[develop7]

Environment

• PostgreSQL version: N/A
• PostgREST version: 12.0.2
• Operating system: Windows 10

Description of issue

postgrest.exe --help should output help text to the console; instead it doesn't start complaining this or that DLL is missing (6 of them total)

Reproducing:

1. Install Windows 10 to a VM, wait for the "App Installer" app to update (provides winget command),
2. Install PostgreSQL (I've used winget install PostgreSQL.PostgreSQL)
3. Deploy PostgREST:
   • Download https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/releases/download/v12.0.2/postgrest-v12.0.2-windows-x64.zip, unpack it somewhere.
   • OR, having scoop installed, run scoop install postgrest
4. run postgrest.exe --help

Notes

I've copied required DLLs out of the pgAdmin bundled with PostgreSQL, so here's the listing of a directory with working PostgREST:

PS C:\Users\vboxuser\Downloads\postgrest-v12.0.2-windows-x64\artifacts\postgrest-windows-x64> ls

    Directory: C:\Users\vboxuser\Downloads\postgrest-v12.0.2-windows-x64\artifacts\postgrest-windows-x64

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a---           11/8/2023 12:36 PM        4566016 libcrypto-3-x64.dll
-a---           11/8/2023 12:36 PM        1851113 libiconv-2.dll
-a---           11/8/2023 12:36 PM         475769 libintl-9.dll
-a---           11/8/2023 12:22 PM         326144 libpq.dll
-a---           11/8/2023 12:36 PM         773120 libssl-3-x64.dll
-a---           11/8/2023 12:36 PM          52736 libwinpthread-1.dll
-a---          12/20/2023 11:46 PM       58726400 postgrest.exe

[locktarr]

Faced the same problem. The DLL files was found in the following paths: ..\PostgreSQL\15\bin

• libcrypto-3-x64.dll
• libiconv-2.dll
• libintl-9.dll
• libssl-3-x64.dll
• libwinpthread-1.dll

..\PostgreSQL\15\lib

• libpq.dll

Just copy this DLLs in folder with postgrest.exe and it works as intended. This need to be fixed for sure, but I hope this helps to use it right now

[steve-chavez]

Is it the same with chocolatey? https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/postgrest

I thought scoop/chocolatey handled dependencies.

[develop7]

Scoop package was definitely affected, probably is still.

[steve-chavez]

Nix on Windows making progress! https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8901. Maybe there's a future where we can get a static binary for Windows too.

cc @wolfgangwalther