can you send me a link to download this version on windows as I didn't find anything other than the one I already have downloaded
On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 1:21 PM Aleksander Alekseev <aleksan...@timescale.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > While I was trying to install PostgreSQL from the git repository to > start contributing I faced this issue. When I try to type ./configure it > gives me this error > > > > checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p > > checking for bison... /c/GnuWin32/bin/bison > > configure: using bison (GNU Bison) 2.4.1 > > checking for flex... configure: error: > > *** The installed version of Flex, /c/GnuWin32/bin/flex, is too old to > use with PostgreSQL. > > *** Flex version 2.5.35 or later is required, but this is > C:\GnuWin32\bin\flex.exe version 2.5.4. > > > > Look at the last two lines, the error says that the installed version of > flex is too old and is 2.4 which is correct and not too old and should be > valid but actually I can't proceed beyond this point. And I double checked > the version of flex > > > > $ flex --version > > C:\GnuWin32\bin\flex.exe version 2.5.4 > > > > and made sure that it is properly included in PATH > > > > $ which flex > > /c/GnuWin32/bin/flex > > Flex 2.5.4 is ancient. Version 2.5.39 was released in 2020 and I > didn't look further to figure out the exact release year of 2.5.4 > > You need something like flex 2.6.4 and bison >= 2.3. That's what I use. > > -- > Best regards, > Aleksander Alekseev >
