Re: PostgreSQL without cygwin. - Mailing list pgsql-cygwin

Hi Todd.

I like the installation.  Espeicailly the size, being less than MySQL,
SAP and definitelly less than any MS SQL server.  That's not hard, but
I'd worry if it was :)

I've been playing with your files trying to get them into Install
Sheild.  Although it's easy to get the program to put everything in the
right place, I'm not sure what to do now, post-loading.

Do you call you mount-directories.bat first?  Is this where cygwin
learns where root and all else is?

Then I would guess you'd run your install.bat.  This would be run using
bash.exe?

DOS>  bash.exe install.sh

This is a one-time executable.  On boot of the PC, another script would
be needed to restart the server again?

Is there anything more which cygwin would need to correctly initiate?
You mension stuff for the Registry for instance?

My registry only shows valid data in: 'My
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Mounts v2\'
  Where it lists the current mount points.

Also, I ask as I have no idea, it might be nice to isolate this
instalation in a safe area away from the users main 'cygwin' stuff.
Like, as InstallSheild would prefure, in c:\Program Files\PostgreSQL
where the /bin /tmp /usr could be built.  If this could be set as the
root in cygwin, AND not conflict with any other cygwin which might be
running on the system.  Sort of like UML with Cygwin, UMC...

This would have the advantage of InstallShield not messing up the users
own installed Cygwin, and also the user installing Cygwin messing up
PostgreSQL?

If this was possible, then an entire instalation could be embedded into
a 2Mb image which could be (as I want) attached to an application for
download over the Internet.

Regards,

Ben Clewett.




Todd F. Peterson wrote:
> whoops...no 's' at the end of download:
>
> http://genebox.ncgr.org/download/genex-lite/
>
> Todd
>
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 Steve_Miller@sil.org wrote:
>
>
>>Todd,
>>
>>I for one wouldn't mind seeing it. But I can't get to the site you listed
>>below.
>>
>>Steve Miller
>>SIL International
>>
>>
>>On 02/14/2003 03:17:37 PM pgsql-cygwin-owner wrote:
>>
>>
>>>i have assembled the minimum components and an install script for
>>>postgres on windows. see
>>>
>>>http://genex.ncgr.org/downloads/genex-lite
>>>
>>>specifically, cygmin.tgz (minimum cygwin for postgres) includes the
>>>necessary components to get postgres working on windows. note that the
>>>windows registry must be modified for the whole thing to work. the
>>>included install.bat does the needed mods to the registry (as i recall).
>>>
>>>Todd Peterson
>>>Sr. Developer
>>>The National Center for Genome Resources
>>>Santa Fe, New Mexico USA
>>>
>>>On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Ben Clewett wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Stand alone PostgrSQL.
>>>>
>>>>How hard would it be to make PostgreSQL stand-alone without cgywin?  And
>>>>if not, if there a sort of minumim configuration of .dll's which could
>>>>be used to build, say, an InstallShield which got the product up and
>>>>running?
>>>>
>>>>As well, if anybody knows, how the development of the stand-alone NT
>>>>version of PostgreSQL is progressing?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
>>>>TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?
>>>>
>>>>http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
>>>TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?
>>>
>>>http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
>>
>>
>>
>>---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
>>TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org
>>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate
> subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your
> message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
>