I sucessfully compiled 7.0.2 on Win 2000 recently. I had a lot of problems
when I first installed cygwin and I select default text type of DOS. When i
removed cygwin, and changed that option during install it all worked (I'm
not sure if I swited it from DOS to Unix, or from Unix to DOS). I'm not
sure that's the problem you are having but it helped me.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alfred Perlstein
To: Gary MacDougall
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Sent: 11/11/00 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] cygwin gcc problem.
* Gary MacDougall <gary@freeportweb.com> [001111 11:28] wrote:
> I'm trying to compile postgresql on Windows 2000. I've followed the
directions accordingly.
>
> When I run the "configure" script, and I get the following error
message:
>
>
> configure: error installation or configuration problem: C compiler
cannot creat
> e executables.
>
> If anyone has any clues, I'd greatly appreciate the assistance.
I think you need to ask on the cygwin lists. If you're compiling
this on Windows 2000 you already need a compiler to compile it.
I would just find the binary distribution and install that.
-Alfred
