From: | Fabrice Scemama <fabrice(at)scemama(dot)org> |
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To: | WT Medewerker <username(at)wt(dot)tno(dot)nl> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Re: How to install on Windows? |
Date: | 2001-05-04 23:15:31 |
Message-ID: | 3AF33813.3FFFA3@scemama.org |
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People, saying that it is easy to install Pg on NT
using Cygwin environment does not assume that *using*
Pg on win32 can be done the way a MS product is
-- that is, clicking on an icon and playing with the
toy without never ever reading any doc.
You must initb, then create your databases, etc. Do RTFM !
WT Medewerker wrote:
>
> >hello
> >
> >is there a human readable tutorial on how to install postgresql on windows
> >platforms? i have no clue what cygwin is, but when i download it, it
> >downloads a bunch of other stuff on my machine! how do i know what i have
> to
> >choose in order to be able to install postgresql later?
> >
> >thanks/erick
>
> I currently trying to get it running on a nt box.
> So far I've downloaded the postgress tar.gz file at
> ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/unix/db/postgresql/binary/v7.0/NT/
> and when trying to run postgres a complaint of a missing
> cywin1.dll occured.
>
> the dll can be found in the cygwin-1.3.1-1.tar.gz package on
> http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/late
> st/cygwin/
> or some other mirror site
>
> Now I've got complaints about databases which don't exist.
> So far that's all what I needed of cygwin
>
> hth
>
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