RE: postgresql on win2000

Just click on the cygwin Icon that appears after install (or
start->menu->cygnus solutions->Cygwin BASH shell). This brings up a command
prompt running the BASH shell
- Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Baron [SMTP:baron(at)jeecom-t(dot)com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 11:21 AM
> To: Henshall, Stuart - WCP
> Subject: RE: [CYGWIN] postgresql on win2000
>
> Sorry for my many questions.
> How can I start 'cygwin bash command line' ?
>
> Baron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henshall, Stuart - WCP
> [mailto:SHenshall(at)westcountrypublications(dot)co(dot)uk]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 5:31 PM
> To: 'Baron'
> Cc: 'pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org'
> Subject: RE: [CYGWIN] postgresql on win2000
>
>
> Hello,
> You need to be in the directory you expanded the postgresql source
> into (and at the cygwin bash command line). I tend to go to /usr/src and
> tar-zxvf postgresql-7.1.2.tar.gz then go into postgresql-7.1.2 and type
> ./configure. However if you can use the pre-compiled postgresql you may as
> well (you'll probably need to do initdb before you can start the
> postmaster,
> and for both you need ipc-daemon to be running).
> As to the packages you need to compile postgresql I tend to just
> select the latest of all of them bar readline, of which I pick the prev
> 4.1
> version (4.2 is missing a declaration postgresql uses, although there's a
> postgresql patch floating around somewhere to handle this).
> - Stuart
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Baron [SMTP:baron(at)jeecom-t(dot)com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:28 AM
> > To: Henshall, Stuart - WCP
> > Subject: RE: [CYGWIN] postgresql on win2000
> >
> > Thanks.
> > The cygwin ipc daemon service is running now.
> > But I cannot run ./configure because win2000 seems cannot recognize this
> > command.
> > Can you give me any ideas?
> >
> > By the way. What packages I need to select when I am installing cygwin?
> >
> > Baron
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Henshall, Stuart - WCP
> > [mailto:SHenshall(at)westcountrypublications(dot)co(dot)uk]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:30 PM
> > To: 'Baron'; pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: RE: [CYGWIN] postgresql on win2000
> >
> >
> > ./configure
> > make
> > make install
> > initdb -D <data-dir>
> >
> > Make sure the cygipc stuff is up and running (ipc-daemon &) before
> > anything
> > else. Also you may not realise it but the latest versions of cygwin come
> > with postgresql precompiled. You still need to get cygipc however, its
> at:
> > http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/cygipc/
> > For more info there is a FAQ at:
> > http://postgresql.bteg.net/docs/faq-mswin
> > For more info look to www.postgresql.org which also has searchable
> mailing
> > list for pgsql-cygwin and also techdocs.postgresql.org
> > hope this help
> > - Stuart
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Baron [SMTP:baron(at)jeecom-t(dot)com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 9:21 AM
> > > To: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > > Subject: [CYGWIN] postgresql on win2000
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Could you please tell me how to run 'configure' command on win2000
> > > after I unzip postgresql-7.1.2.tar.gz? Thanks.
> > >
> > > Baron
> > >
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