Re: postgresql 8.0 with cygwin - success

Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:26:47 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.cygwin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Reini Urban wrote:
> Bruce Momjian schrieb:
> > Marek Lewczuk wrote:
> >>I'm just writing to let you know that latest cvs version of 8.0-beta3 is 
> >>working fine under cygwin - there are no problems with compiling and 
> >>running innitdb. All contrib modules are also working (except spi).
> > 
> > Great.  Thanks.  I was getting conflicting reports of Cygwin problems
> > before.
> 
> Not for me:
> 
> I found a problem with my pg_ctl patch (WIN32 is always defined in 
> cygwin when windows.h is included, and the START /B postmaster cmdline 
> doesn't work on cygwin). Patch will be posted soon.

Yes, I was wondering about that use of START.  What I think we will do
is to add a comment that including windows.h in that file defines WIN32
and have an #ifndef __CYGWIN__ in places that need it --- just let me
know.

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