[postgis-users] Newbie: Windows Install Help

[Norman Vine]

Chris Hodgson writes:
>
>It is not necessary to compile any of these yourself, or even 
>to install the source.

>You do need to
>run ./configure in the postgres source directory, because some 
>options in the
>makefile.global are used by postgis in its makefile. Then you 
>just have to untar
>the postgis source into the postgres tree, and make it.

EXACTLY !!

>"Obe, Regina DND\\MIS" wrote:
>
>>
>> The following packages or later are required to build and/or execute
>> Cygwin PostgreSQL:
>>
>>     crypt 1.0.1
>>     cygipc 1.09
>>     readline 4.2-3
>>     zlib 1.1.3

If the linker complains about any of these rerun the Cygwin setup program
and download the package

see http://cygwin.com/packages/ if you do not know the name of the
required package for a 'missing' library

the Cygwin specific postgres documentation in in /usr/doc/cygwin

Note there is a list for Cygwin related PostgreSQL questions
pgsql-cygwin at postgresql.org

Norman