[SOLVED] Running postgres executable in servercore:1809 does not output anything on terminal

Running postgres executable in servercore:1809 does not output anything on terminal

I am experimenting to install PostgreSQL in a Windows Container but for some reason when I run initdb nothing is printed. When running initdb on my host machine I get an error that I need to either pass -D or set the environment variable PGDATA.

Steps to reproduce:

docker run --user ContainerAdministrator --rm -it mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:1809
curl.exe -L -o pgsql16.zip https://sbp.enterprisedb.com/getfile.jsp?fileid=1258697
tar.exe -xf pgsql16.zip -C C:/ --exclude="pgsql/doc" --exclude="pgsql/include" --exclude="pgsql/pgAdmin 4" --exclude="pgsql/StackBuilder"
C:\pgsql\bin\initdb

The output is:

C:\>C:\pgsql\bin\initdb.exe

C:\>

I found something regarding gdi lib but they were are doing something with C#, installing dotnet and such. I do not. So I am not sure what is going on.

Solution

Found the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/69000743/12550134

vc++ is missing.

curl.exe -L -o vc.exe https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe
vc.exe /install /quiet /norestart

fixed the issue.