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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 10:12:08 +0000
From: David Warnock <david@sundayta.co.uk>
Organization: Sundayta Ltd
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To: Kevin Lo <kevlo@hello.com.tw>
CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Announce: PostgreSQL-6.5.3 binaries available
	forWindows NT
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Kevin,

We are interested in funding work to get postgresql working on Windows
9x.

I know that cgywin is available for Win9x but that parts of the api are
not available.

Do you believe it will be possible to build and run postgresql on Win9x?
How much work would be involved?

Thanks

Dave

Kevin Lo wrote:
> 
> Robert wrote:
> 
> > Kevin Lo wrote:
> >
> > > Some people asked me to build PostgreSQL binaries for Windows NT.
> > > The binaries(PostgreSQL-6.5.3) are now available at:
> > >
> > > ftp://203.79.167.135/pub/postgres-nt-binaries.tar.gz
> >
> > Hi,
> 
> Hi, Robert,
> 
> > I'm trying this on Win98 (cygwin b20.1): initdb creates template1 just
> > fine (I had to run it as sh initdb), but whenever I try to run
> > postgres.exe,
> > it complains
> >
> > FATAL 1:  Database system does not exist.  PGDATA
> > directory '/usr/local/pgsql/data' not found
> >
> > even if two minutes ago it worked and the directory is there of course.
> > Some funny problem with mount? Any help will be greatly apreciated.
> 
> mount? You can't run psql server on Windows 98 platform. The PostgreSQL
> doesn't generate pq.dll if you notice it.
> 
> > - Robert
> 
> - Kevin
> 
> ************