[postgis-devel] Unable to compile with MinGW/MSYS - GEOS Problem

[Pierre Racine]

Hi,

I'm carefully following the instructions in:

http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiWinCompile

trying to compile PostGIS 1.4.1 RC2 with PostgreSQL 8.4.1, but GEOS does not compile.

The first attempt with the geos-svn version ends with:

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g++ -g -O2 -DGEOS_INLINE -pedantic -Wall -ansi -Wno-long-long -ffloat-store -o .libs/IteratedBufferStressTest.exe IteratedBufferStressTest.o  ../../../..//source/.libs/libgeos.dll.a -L/c/postgres/lib
creating IteratedBufferStressTest.exe
.libs/lt-IteratedBufferStressTest.exe.c: In function `main':
.libs/lt-IteratedBufferStressTest.exe.c:79: warning: passing arg 2 of `execv' from incompatible pointer type
make[4]: Leaving directory `/c/thesrc/geos-svn/tests/perf/operation/buffer'
...
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Another attempt using geos-3.2.0rc4 ends with:

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g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../../source/headers -I../../../../source/headers/geos -I../../../../source/headers -I../../../../source/io/markup    -g -O2 -DGEOS_INLINE  -pedantic -Wall -ansi -Wno-long-long  -ffloat-store -MT IteratedBufferStressTest.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/IteratedBufferStressTest.Tpo -c -o IteratedBufferStressTest.o IteratedBufferStressTest.cpp
mv -f .deps/IteratedBufferStressTest.Tpo .deps/IteratedBufferStressTest.Po
/bin/sh ../../../../libtool --tag=CXX   --mode=link g++  -g -O2 -DGEOS_INLINE  -pedantic -Wall -ansi -Wno-long-long  -ffloat-store   -o IteratedBufferStressTest.exe IteratedBufferStressTest.o ../../../../source/libgeos.la ../../../../source/libgeos.la
libtool: link: g++ -g -O2 -DGEOS_INLINE -pedantic -Wall -ansi -Wno-long-long -ff
loat-store -o .libs/IteratedBufferStressTest.exe IteratedBufferStressTest.o  ../../../../source/.libs/libgeos.dll.a -L/c/postgres/lib
./.libs/lt-IteratedBufferStressTest.c:267: warning: string length `4299' is greater than the length `509' ISO C89 compilers are required to support
./.libs/lt-IteratedBufferStressTest.c: In function `main':
./.libs/lt-IteratedBufferStressTest.c:362: warning: implicit declaration of function `_spawnv'
./.libs/lt-IteratedBufferStressTest.c:362: error: `_P_WAIT' undeclared (first use in this function)
./.libs/lt-IteratedBufferStressTest.c:362: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
./.libs/lt-IteratedBufferStressTest.c:362: error: for each function it appears in.)
c:\MinGW\bin\strip.exe: './IteratedBufferStressTest.exe': pas de fichier comme tel
../../../../libtool: line 7842: 1: ambiguous redirect

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What version should I use? How can I fix this?

Thanks for any hint.

Pierre