Re: [PORTS] Compiler Error - postgress make on mingw for win32

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander.net>
Date: Tue Feb 05 2008 - 10:37:44 EST

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:36:50PM -0800, mohan namadhari wrote:
> Hi,
> While compiling the postgres 8.1x on mingw tool,
> getting following error. Does anyone have any clue
> what is going on here? Does it requires to fix
> makefile? If so which make file and what exactly is
> the change required?
> Following is the error I am getting.
>
> dlltool --dllname postgres.exe --def postgres.def
> --output-lib libpostgres.a
> C:\msys\1.0\mingw\bin\dlltool.exe: CreateProcess
> make[2]: *** [libpostgres.a] Error 1
> make[2]: *** Deleting file `libpostgres.a'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/postgresql/src/backend'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/postgresql/src'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

This looks like an internal error somewhere in mingw, in that it can't execute CreateProcess itself calling some sub-process. I think something is bad in your build environment.

//Magnus

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