Re: Porting to Win2k: ./configure failed

Juan,

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 06:12:11PM +0100, JJAR wrote:
> I have followed KevinLo's instructions to port PostgreSQL 7.0.3 to Windows
> 2000, but when I type "./configure" I have the following command line
> outout:
>
> $ ./configure
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin
> checking echo setting...
> checking setting template to... cygwin32
> configure: warning: *** Include directory /usr/local/include does not
> exist.
> checking whether to support locale... disabled
> checking whether to support cyrillic recode... disabled
> checking whether to support multibyte... disabled
> checking setting DEF_PGPORT... 5432
> checking setting DEF_MAXBACKENDS... 32
> checking setting USE_TCL... disabled
> checking setting USE_PERL... disabled
> checking setting USE_ODBC... disabled
> checking setproctitle... disabled
> checking setting ASSERT CHECKING... disabled
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot
> create executables.

Did you install all of Cygwin or just some of it? My WAG is that you
are missing the binutils package. Can you compile a simple "Hello World!"
program?

Jason

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