[postgis-users] Newbie: Windows Install Help

[Tyler Mitchell]

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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