[postgis-users] Installation Trouble.

[Changqing Zhou]

You need to compile and install postgres. If you installed postgres
as a cygwin package, it is not going to work.

I do not know if there is a better way. When I had the problem last week,
I re-installed everything and that seems work.

Changqing

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 dave at davemitch.com wrote:

> Hi I'm trying to get the POSTGIS installed on my machine.
>
> I have just run through the guide.
> http://postgis.refractions.net/windows/WindowsHowTo.html
>
> I installed Cygwin and set up Postgresql as a service. (Postgres was included
> in the Cygwyn installation, so I didn't need to download it from postgres
> website)
>
> I have create the postmaster account as per the instructions and everything
> seems to be in order.
>
> However my problem has arrived when starting to install POSTGIS as the
> instructions say:-
>
> "Move the tar file to the 'contrib' directory of you PostgreSQL source tree
> (e.g. "C:\cygwin\src\postgresql-7.4-1\contrib"), and de-compress it."
>
> I have a C:\cygwin\src\ directory but it is empty. What do I need to do to
> build this tree.
>
> Does it matter if the tree isn't there as my POSTGRES database seems to work ok.
>
> Dave
>
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