Hi,
I have struggled to install postgres from the latest Cygwin release. At
first, I used the standard clean installation of cygwin, but the
standard install uses cygipc 2.0.1-2, which appears to need some extras
to run. At first, I got a __getreent error from the cygwin1 dll when
trying to start ipc-daemon2, but then I installed the latest
(experimental) version and got different errors. After messing about for
a while, I found that if I installed the "Exp" installation of cygwin,
most of the required libraries were installed. The exception was
libpopt, which I installed manually. After this, all was well.
This may indicate some problems with the dependencies and packages in
the distribution. I note that
http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/postgresql/postgresql-7.3.4.README
doesn't mention the libpopt package as a requirement.
Cheers,
Brian Lowe.
PS. Should this be posted to a more general cygwin mailing list ?