Thread: WinNT 4.0, 7.1.3, build hangs on "no rule" for libpq.a

Hi folks

    I've been trying to build for Windows NT.  I have the latest Cygwin
installed, as well as MS Visual Studio 6.0.

    When I try to build, the process halts in src\interfaces\libpq.  If
I try to manually calle the make command there, I get

$ make
make: *** No rule to make target `libpq.a', needed by `all-lib'.  Stop.




    Since I noticed the file win32.mak, I tried changing its name to
Makefile and running NMAKE.   That was no good either (see below).  Has
anyone got an idea how to fix this?


          - Brian




C:\Brian\Development\POSTGR~1.3\src\interfaces\libpq>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 6.00.8168.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.

        if not exist ".\Release/" mkdir ".\Release"
        cl.exe @C:\TEMP\nma00250.
dllist.c
..\..\include\config.h(677) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file:
'os.h': No such file or directory
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl.exe' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

Brian,

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 02:20:10PM -0500, Brian Boonstra wrote:
>     I've been trying to build for Windows NT.  I have the latest Cygwin
> installed, as well as MS Visual Studio 6.0.

The above is not clear -- are you trying to build for Cygwin or Win32?
If Cygwin, then why don't you use the pre-built 7.1.3 that is part of
the standard Cygwin distribution.  If Win32, did you following the
procedure outlined in:

    http://www.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/admin/install-win32.html

Jason

Hi

> If Cygwin, then why don't you use the pre-built 7.1.3 that is part of
> the standard Cygwin distribution


    Um, maybe because I'm a hasty fool who didn't see it in there.  Argh.


    Thanks for the help -- I'll use the pre-built one.



        - Brian