Re: Finding zlib on MinGW

Tony and Bryn Reina wrote:

> Perhaps this is well known to gurus, but I had some trouble with
> configuring a snapshot in MSys/MinGW because zlib couldn't be found.
> After some digging, I managed to find that gcc-mingw doesn't look for
> /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib, which are the directories that
> a mingw-compiled version of zlib resides. In any case, I thought that
> maybe a little FAQ or note could be added to the install documentation
> to mention this.
>
> Basically, if configure complains about not finding zlib, then confirm
> that it exists in /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include (from your
> MSys shell). If not, then create these directories (as necessary) and
> build zlib using gcc-MinGW from the MSys shell (http://www.zlib.org).
> Once you have a good copy of zlib, then run configure in the Postgres
> installation with the options: --with-includes=/usr/local/include
> --with-libs=/usr/local/lib
>
> Hopefully, those few lines should save a novice like me a little
> headache during a future win32 build from scratch.
>
>

or you could simply add --without-zlib to your postgresql configure flags

or you could configure the zlib install to use /usr instead of /usr/local

:-)

cheers

andrew