Re: running postgresql7.3.4 under windows

Chigurupati, Prasad wrote:

> 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@tishler.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:21 AM
> To: Chigurupati, Prasad
> Cc: 'pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.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
>
If you have cygipc installed then it should just be something like:
ipc-daemon &
initdb -D /usr/local/pgdata
postmaster -i -D /usr/local/pgdata &
hth,
- Stuart