installing postgres on windows

[Andrew-J2000]

I'm trying to install postgres on windows running Cygwin. I dont really have a clue what i'm doing so could any one explain what the error is below and how i can install postgres?

llk@MARTIN /usr/src/postgresql-7.2.2
$ ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking which template to use... win
checking whether to build with locale support... no
checking whether to build with recode support... no
checking whether to build with multibyte character support... no
checking whether NLS is wanted... no
checking for default port number... 5432
checking for default soft limit on number of connections... 32
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

[Mincer]

I battled with cygwin and pg for days before I gave up. I wish I could help.

I've now got a redhat 7.3 server instead.

[Chris82]

checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no

I think these lines mean, that you don't have a compiler installed to build the files from the source files.
Did you download all packages that were available via Cygwin? I once tried it myself and only selected a few which resulted in errors. When I downloaded everything, it worked better.

Another reason could be that the file is installed but the directory is not listed in the PATH setting in autoexec.bat

autoexec.bat should look something like this:

PATH=<dirslistedalready>;X:\pathto\cygwindir;.

[seanf]

Moved to a more appropriate forum

Sean

[Karl]

Basically put, it can't find your command line compiler. Open source is great as long as you don't have to compile stuff originally designed for *nix on Windows, hence why I try and always have a linux box around for these kinds of situations, at the moment I'm using an old Cyrix 166.

[seanf]

BTW - I put this thread here because you are using Cygwin

I've had partial success with this before

Sean