[postgis-users] Newbie: Windows Install Help

[Chris Hodgson]

I think you need the cyg-ipc package to get the gcc -O2 to work in
./configure, and you'll need it to run postgreSQL in cygwin as well. This
is described in the CYGWIN readme in the postgres sources.

Chris Hodgson

Norman Vine wrote:

> Tyler Mitchell writes:
> >
> >I thought I might as well try too.  I can't get past ./configure for
> >postgresql.   I used your options Norman (from
> >http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2001-Jun
> >e/000025.html)
> >
> >but it bails on me complaining:
> >
> >checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 ) works... no
> >configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C
> >compiler cannot create executables.
>
> Have you installed the Cygwin development packages ???
> < gcc binutils ect ... >
>
> Norman
>
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