Thread: Win32 development question

-----Original Message-----
From: Dann Corbit [mailto:DCorbit@connx.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:48 AM
To: PostgreSQL-development
Subject: [HACKERS] Win32 development question

I am wanting to fiddle with the latest Win32 stuff, using the Mingw tools.

Is it included in the current (2-17-04) snapshot?

 

I did a download of the tarball and expanded it.

I changed directory to the /postgresql-snapshot directory and performed a ./configure

 

configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating GNUmakefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile.global
config.status: creating src/include/pg_config.h
config.status: linking ./src/backend/port/tas/dummy.s to src/backend/port/tas.s
config.status: linking ./src/backend/port/dynloader/win32.c to src/backend/port/dynloader.c
config.status: linking ./src/backend/port/sysv_sema.c to src/backend/port/pg_sema.c
config.status: linking ./src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c to src/backend/port/pg_shmem.c
config.status: linking ./src/backend/port/dynloader/win32.h to src/include/dynloader.h
config.status: linking ./src/include/port/win32.h to src/include/pg_config_os.h
config.status: linking ./src/makefiles/Makefile.win32 to src/Makefile.port

Make fails:

 

$ make
src/Makefile.global:275: src/Makefile.port: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `src/Makefile.port'.  Stop.

What is necessary in order to fool around with the Win32 stuff?

From the above symbolic link formation, it seems like it should have found the file.

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Without checking into details, this sounds like it could be a broken
> ming/msys installation. Are you on the latest release version?
>  
> Also, check for the Makefile.port file manually. configure cleraly
> thinks it has created it... If it's not there, check if you can create
> symbolic links manually - I'd definitly lean towards broke mingw.
>  
> I haven't tried it since the 2-10-04 snapshot, but never had any
> problems before, and IIRC there hasn't been any changes to configure or
> the makefiles since then.

I have version 1.08 and it works.  I didn't think the most recent
version, 1.10 worked.

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> > Without checking into details, this sounds like it could be
> a broken
> > ming/msys installation. Are you on the latest release version?
> >
> > Also, check for the Makefile.port file manually. configure cleraly
> > thinks it has created it... If it's not there, check if you
> can create
> > symbolic links manually - I'd definitly lean towards broke mingw.
> >
> > I haven't tried it since the 2-10-04 snapshot, but never had any
> > problems before, and IIRC there hasn't been any changes to
> configure
> > or the makefiles since then.
>
> I have version 1.08 and it works.  I didn't think the most
> recent version, 1.10 worked.

I'm on 1.0.9. This is the latest released version. 1.1.0 is a candidate
version, and that's the one we've had problems reported with.

//mha