OK, I have a C version of initdb that apparently works fine on Unix, and is only missing signal handling. (If anyone is curious and/or adventurous I can email you a copy).
When I compile on W32/Mingw I get this:
$ make
gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -DPGBINDIR=\"/usr/local/pgsql/bin\" -DPGDATADIR=\"/usr/local/pgsql/share\" -L../../../src/port initdb.o -lpgport -o initdb
../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0xe1):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `errstart'
../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0xef):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `elog_finish'
../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0x11a):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `errstart'
../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0x128):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `elog_finish'
../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0x1df):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `errstart'
../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0x1ef):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `elog_finish'
../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0x21a):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `errstart'
../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0x22a):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `elog_finish'
make: *** [initdb] Error 1
The strange thing is I didn't get that this morning, but I assume it's clearly because I added some unlink calls.
Anyone have clues about how to fix this? Compile a copy of dirmod.c with FRONTEND defined, maybe? Or just remove the logging statements from pgunlink altogether - unlink should really be silent.
BTW, if the W32 timing problems that apply to unlink() also apply to rmdir(), we'll need a replacement for that too.
thanks
andrew