Re: running postgresql7.3.4 under windows

Hi Jason,
as i told in my last mail, i downloaded the latest cygwin which comes with
postgresql version 7.3.4-1 only. but when i follow the postgis installation
for windows document, am facing compiler error. if these r prebuilt , then
is there any document for installation under windows for this prebuilt
packages?.

please help me in this..

Rgds,
Prasad.CH

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Tishler [mailto:jason(at)tishler(dot)net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:21 AM
To: Chigurupati, Prasad
Cc: 'pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org'
Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] running postgresql7.3.4 under windows

Prasad,

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 05:01:31PM +0800, Chigurupati, Prasad wrote:
> I am trying to install Postgresql7.3.4 under windows using latest
> cygwin. I downloaded and installed the cygwin in to my machine win
> 2000 under e:\cygwin folder. I am sure that gcc also comes with
> cygwin.so it means GCC also installed under my machine. after that
> when i tries to install and configure postgresql7.3.4 i am getting
> error msg as
> "checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
> cannot create executables"
> this error msf am getting when i used "./configure --enable-multibyte
> --with-CXX --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
> --docdir=/usr/doc/postgresql-$version" command.
> since am new to unix/lynx environment am getting confused to where
> this gcc will sit under e:\cygwin.I searched this folder. at different
> locations the gcc related files were located. so could any body help
> to where this GCC will site under home directory of cygwin. and what
> may be the reason for above error. and where to set the path vaiable
> for this gcc.? could any body can clear my problem issue..

Given the above, why not just use the pre-built version that is part of
the standard Cygwin distribution?

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-08/msg00001.html

Jason

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