Re: compilation failure on windows2000 - Mailing list pgsql-cygwin

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 10:24:55AM -0800, Yuan, Wei wrote:
> Hi, there,
>
> I got the following error while compiling posgresql 7.1.3 on my windows2000
> machine with cygwin 1.1.9
>
> gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations command.o common.o
> hel
> p.o input.o stringutils.o mainloop.o copy.o startup.o prompt.o variables.o
> large
> _obj.o print.o describe.o tab-complete.o -L../../../src/interfaces/libpq
> -lpq -L
> /usr/local/lib -g  -lz -lcrypt -lreadline -lcygipc -o psql
> tab-complete.o(.text+0x2a36):tab-complete.c: undefined reference to
> `filename_co
> mpletion_function'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> Am I missing some libraries?

I've digged out an answer from Jason Tishler out of my mail archive. Here it
is:

Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 20:44:33 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net>
To: David <cupcake@sdf.lonestar.org>
Cc: pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] NT install
Message-ID: <20011009204433.E1148@dothill.com>

David,

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:27:19PM +0000, David wrote:
> I have installed cygwin as of late September, 2001, and cygipc-1_10-1 and
> was trying to do the gmake today as part of the postgresql install and I
> received this error:
>
> gcc -02 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations command.o
> common.o help.o input.o stringutils.o mainloop.o copy.o startup.o prompt.o
> variables.o large_obj.o print.o describe.o tab-complete.o -L../../../src/interfaces/libpg
> -lpg -L/usr/local/lib -g  -lz -lcrypt -lreadline -lcygipc -o psql
> tab-complete.o(.text+0x2a36):tab-complete.c: undefined reference
> to `filename_completion_function`
> [snip]
>
> Do you think I should remove the reference to filename_completion_function?

No.  The pristine PostgreSQL 7.1.3 source needs to be patched to build
against readline 4.2 (or later) under Cygwin.  I recommend using the
already patched for Cygwin PostgreSQL source that is available on the
Cygwin mirrors.  Of course, this is only if the pre-built binary does
not meet your needs.

> In the broader context, I am trying to use postgresql on my WindowsNT
> to access a sybase database using ODBC.
>
> Does anyone know of this having been done successfully? Are there
> focused and detailed instructions for this purpose?

Sorry, I have no experience in this area so I can't help you with
this one.

Jason

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