Re: where is the postmaster executable in the win nt distribution ? - Mailing list pgsql-ports

Christian,

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 10:26:44PM +0100, Christian Thrum wrote:
> can i use cygwin-gcc to build postgresql?

Yes, PostgreSQL 7.1beta4 or later builds OOTB under Cygwin.  It is as
simple as configure, make, make install.

You may find the following helpful although it is a little out of date:

    http://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/postgres/portNT.html

> > > i use the binary version : postgresql-7.0-nt-binaries.tar.gz
> >
> > What is the above?  That is, from where did you get it?
>
> ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/binary/v7.0/NT/
>
> i guess that the archive contained the symlinks, but winzip didn't show them....

Do *not* use WinZip to untar because it will not preserve symlinks.
Note that this a general Cygwin recommendation and is not specific to
PostgreSQL.

Jason

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