Re: Porting to Win2000

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Linda Fousek wrote:

> I am installing postgresql on a win2000 machine. I have installed cygwin and
> cygipc, and I'm getting the following error when trying to run ./configure
>
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type ... i686-pc-cygwin
> checking which template to use ... win
> checking whether to build with local support ... no
> checking whether to build with recode ... no
> checking whether to build with multibyte character support ... no
> checking whether NLS is wanted ... no
> checking for default port number ... 5432
> checking for soft limit on number of connections ... 32
> checking for gcc ... no
> checking for cc ... no
> configure:error:no acceptable cc found in $PATH

There's no compiler installed. Why mess with this when you can install the
pre-built cygwin package? Much easier to deal with, and it seems to work
fairly well.

Andy

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