Hi,
I have struggled to install postgres from the latest Cygwin release. At first, I used the standard clean installation of cygwin, but the standard install uses cygipc 2.0.1-2, which appears to need some extras to run. At first, I got a __getreent error from the cygwin1 dll when trying to start ipc-daemon2, but then I installed the latest (experimental) version and got different errors. After messing about for a while, I found that if I installed the “Exp” installation of cygwin, most of the required libraries were installed. The exception was libpopt, which I installed manually. After this, all was well.
This may indicate some problems with the dependencies and packages in the distribution. I note that http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/postgresql/postgresql-7.3.4.README doesn’t mention the libpopt package as a requirement.
Cheers,
Brian Lowe.
PS. Should this be posted to a more general cygwin mailing list ?
