Hi all,
I recently had some problems with a pre-built version of PostgreSQL and so I
decided to try and build my own copy from source, but have run into even more
problems.
I downloaded a copy of the source, unpacked it into a directory and had a quick
look at the possible configure options (./configure --help) just to see if
anything specific caught my eye. The only thing I saw was --with-gnu-ld. So I
ran configure in the postgresql src root directory as ./configure --with-gnu-ld
--prefix=/mingw. I got as far as the zlib checks when configure told me that I
didnt have zlib installed (a quick look at my files confirmed this), so I went
to www.zlib.net and downloaded version 1.2.5 (this appears to be the latest), I
then built and installed this. Running configure again (with the same options)
gave me a wonderful error.
configure: error: zlib version is too old
Use --without-zlib to disable zlib support.
How can the latest version be too old????? Seeing this, I uninstalled that
version and went in search of other versions. The versions I found may not have
been newer (may have been older) but I tried them anyways, all with the same
results, apparently all versions were too old. The other versions I found were
on the MinGW/MSYS download site (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/),
I tried the most recent versions listed on there.
Faced with that, I then changed my configure line to be ./configure
--prefix=/mingw --with-gnu-ld --without-zlib (who needs zlib anyways, right?).
Now I was thinking that surely this would be the end of it and I would soon
have a fully built version of PostgreSQL ........ sadly not. I now get this
error.
checking for atexit... yes
checking test program... failed
configure: error:
Could not execute a simple test program. This may be a problem
related to locating shared libraries. Check the file 'config.log'
for the exact reason.
And now I have no idea. I had a look at config.log and to find this.
configure:21835: checking for atexit
configure:21891: gcc -qlanglvl=extc89 -o conftest.exe -O2 -Wall
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement
-Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -I./src/include/port/win32
-DEXEC_BACKEND -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition conftest.c >&5
gcc.exe: unrecognized option '-qlanglvl=extc89'
configure:21898: $? = 0
configure:21920: result: yes
configure:23234: checking test program
configure:23254: gcc -qlanglvl=extc89 -o conftest.exe -O2 -Wall
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement
-Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -I./src/include/port/win32
-DEXEC_BACKEND -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition conftest.c >&5
gcc.exe: unrecognized option '-qlanglvl=extc89'
configure:23258: $? = 0
configure:23264: ./conftest.exe
./configure: line 23266: ./conftest.exe: Invalid argument
configure:23268: $? = 126
configure: program exited with status 126
configure: failed program was:
Having a look at line 23266 of configure and Im lost (never could understand
those things).
Can anyone tell me what is going on here? I have built other libraries/packages
with this toolchain (wxWidgets, xerces-c, boost), so I dont think it is broken.
Some system info.....
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
MSYS ver: 1.0.14
MinGW ver: 4.5.0
Make ver: GNU make 3.81
If it matters ..... My IDE is Eclipse Galileo and I am compiling my project
using the MinGW toolchain.
If you need any more info just let me know.
Regards
Bidski
