Re: Problems building from source

Magnus Hagander wrote:

>> Faced with that, I then changed my configure line to be ./configure
>> --prefix=ingw --with-gnu-ld --without-zlib (who needs zlib anyways,
>> right?). Now I was thinking that surely this would be the end of it and I
>> would soon have a fully built version of PostgreSQL ........ sadly not. I
>> now get this error.
>>
>> checking for atexit... yes
>> checking test program... failed
>> configure: error:
>> Could not execute a simple test program. This may be a problem
>> related to locating shared libraries. Check the file 'config.log'
>> for the exact reason.
>
> Is mingw even fully supported on 64-bit today?

The mingw-w64 fork is fairly mature at the moment, and the devs are
really helpful if you do happen to find something that doesn't work. The
orignal mingw project 64-bit support is not that great.

http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/

ATB,

Mark.

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