I began to suspect my version of WinZip was lousing up the pg source files when it dropped files from a zlib.tar I was trying to install. So, I installed 7-zip and unpacked the pg source with that.. - I ran ./configure --without-zlib Then: make world Success! (then: make install-world) So, now it's a hot mess of something - looks a far cry from the binary version I originally downloaded, but supposedly it's installed Pgxs looks to be in there too deep in a test path... I think I'll need to sleep on it before I can make heads or tails of the installed tree -- but tremendous thanks for all the help! I'd be lost otherwise. Cheers, John -----Original Message----- From: Craig Ringer [mailto:craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 8:20 PM To: Turner, John J Cc: List, Postgres Subject: Re: installing from source in Windows On 19/10/2010 5:58 AM, Turner, John J wrote: > Here's a question: is my source download getting mangled by unpacking > with WinZip instead of gzip? I doubt it. I use 7-zip on Windows without problems. You certainly don't need to use gzip and GNU tar. I'm pretty puzzled about why c.h isn't seeing the macro definitions set by configure - but not puzzled enough to want to suffer though msys/mingw/autohell on Windows when the VC build "just works". -- Craig Ringer Tech-related writing at http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general