[postgis-users] Newbie: Windows Install Help

[Obe, Regina DND\MIS]

Yes you have to check SRC - and it puts it under
cygwin/usr/src/postgresql-7.2....

If for some reason it doesn't - if you download the cygwin packages before
you install, you can find it bzipped.

within that is the contrib folder

It has some other dependency sources which don't get downloaded
automatically by cygwin.  Cygipc is one, but I forget the others - If you
don't have all the sources in place.  Then it gives an error something like

"gcc can't make exe"



-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:TMitchell at lignum.com]
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 4:39 PM
To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
Cc: Chip.Hankley at GASAI.Com
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Newbie: Windows Install Help



That's the spirit Chip - glad to see you are getting your hand dirty :)
When you select to install postgresql via cygwin setup, I think you need to
check the "SRC" box in the setup window, or else it won't put the sources
on your machine.  I haven't done this myself, so I'm not sure where they
put it - perhaps in /usr/src somewhere? or in the temp folder you define
during cygwin setup.

Hope that helps.  Let me know how it goes.

Tyler


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OK, I'm a windows person, my *NIX knowledge is pretty limited (but I'm
trying to get better...). I'd like to do some experimenting with PostGIS /
MapServer, but have gotten lost on, well, something like step 2.

I downloaded and installed Cygwin. This seemed to go OK. I modified the
default installation to install PostgreSQL (I believe 7.2.1).

Following the instructions in
C:\cygwin\usr\doc\Cygwin\postgresql-7.2.1.README, I downloaded and
installed
the cygipc package, and followed the instructions on

http://www3.us.postgresql.org/docs/faq-mswin.html

I then completed the instructions in the above mentioned README file for a
basic Cygwin PostgreSQL installation... which seemed to go fine.

I have downloaded the PostGIS tarball.

Here's the problem. I don't see a 'contrib' directory anywhere under my
CYGWIN directory. I assume that this would be somewhere in the PostgreSQL
source... however, since PostgreSQL came as part of my Cygwin installation,
I don't have the source.

So... the Cygwin instructions say "don't compile PostgreSQL if you don't
have to"... do I have to? What should I do now?

TIA!

Chip Hankley

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