On 01/28/2011 08:09 AM, JonY wrote:
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On 1/28/2011 18:19, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
configure:7071: checking for zic
configure:7104: result: no
configure:7113: error:
When cross-compiling, either use the option --with-system-tzdata to use
existing time-zone data, or set the environment variable ZIC to a zic
program to use during the build.
Why are you cross-compiling? I built without any need to do that. Change
the names of the binaries on the m mingw64/bin directory to remove the
platform prefix, put that directory at the head of your PATH, and run a
plain configure. Works like a charm.

You should probably wait a little while (i.e a week or so) for me to
work out the wrinkles in this. Then I will publish some instructions on
the wiki.
Hi,

the mingw64 toolchain is usually built as a cross compiler, so its not
his fault there, its not supposed to be renamed. Will it be possible to
check first if the host machine actually allows using tzdata related
stuff before erroring out?

Disclaimer: I don't know anything about tzdata or zic other than its for
timezone information.




Maybe that's true. But Windows doesn't come wth zic nor a timezone database like Unix usually has. Part of the reason we started maintaining our own timezone sets was that we needed it on Windows. And since we do mke rovision for that, jumping through these hoops seems silly. I'm much more interested in building 64 bit Postgres for Windows natively than as a cross compilation, and as I reported yesterday, it's entirely possible. The cross-compilaion without renaming failed miserably on my setuo, because, for example, configure used the wrong ar.

If you want to cross-compile on Windows, then the best solution seems to be to build the native zic in the Postgres source, stash it away somewhere, and then use that in your cross compilation. Ugh.

cheers

andrew





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