Yup - after hunting around a bit I realized MSYS was missing, so I installed it. Good news: I now have a Bash interface and ./configure ran successfully Bad news: Now the install process bombs out when I attempt to "make" (it gets Error 1 and Error 2 and backs out of the /c/program files/postgresql-9.0.0/src directory) I'm reluctant at this point to wipe out my MinGW and MSYS and start from scratch with Windows SDK and/or VS-ee... Any insight or advice on this subsequent "make" stumbling block would be most appreciated. Thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: Craig Ringer [mailto:craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 9:28 PM To: Rob Sargent Cc: Turner, John J; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: installing from source in Windows On 10/17/2010 12:25 AM, Rob Sargent wrote: > No at all familiar with MinGW, but I've done some "./configure"s in my > time. > > ./configure scripts 1) check to see what the local build environment > contains and 2) which special feature you wish to toggle. > > But the pretty much assume a unix-like env. Could you put cygwin on > rather than just mingw? While I can't speak for PostgreSQL specifically, msys rather than cygwin is typically used for most autotools-based builds of software on Windows. Personally I'd recommend that the OP just grab Visual Studio Express Edition and/or the Windows SDK and compile PostgreSQL that way. See the instructions here: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/install-windows-full.htm l It's astonishingly easy for a Windows build of any kind, let alone of a portable autotools-based open source database. -- Craig Ringer -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
