[postgis-devel] mingw autotools

[Paul Ramsey]

I put 3.1.6 on my new box and have had no luck. With 3.1.4, things did
seem to work on the old box. Does that ring a bell?

P

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> Paul,
> Yes that sounds familiar.  Haven't been able to build the GEOS 3.2+ with the
> newer MingW (I could build 3.1 with the newer), so I had to scrap my newer
> install and revert when started working on 1.5.
>
>  Even gdal which WKT Raster relies on technically doesn't support MingW,
> though it works with some hacking.
>
> Anyway.  For 2.0 I want a clean start and go VS/VS Express all the way.
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
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> Ramsey
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> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] mingw autotools
>
> It got more confusing, unfortunately. I had an older VM configured exactly
> to the old wiki page and the autotools there spit out a usable configure. So
> the problem (maybe?) is with moving up to the latest minor version of
> MingGW? So I don't know what the answer is except that building with MinGW
> is impossibly confusing. If VCC can offer a saner build situation it might
> be worth the time spent to just suck it up and go to a pure VCC build. Proj
> and GEOS already build in VCC as does pgsql so it's just postgis to do...
>
> P.
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
>> Paul,
>>
>> Which version of GEOS are you configuring?
>>
>> Like I mentioned I haven't had problems with GEOS <= 3.2.2 , but the
>> 3.3.0 just can't build under mingw.  Which I suspect you are running
>> into the same issues?
>>
>> I think it builds fine under my VS /VS Express environments last I
> checked.
>>
>> Which  of course vastly limits my ability to test anything in the
>> PostGIS 2.0 trunk (aside from I have issues - can't build even against
>> old GEOS the trunk under mingw)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Regina
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of
>> Paul Ramsey
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7:40 PM
>> To: PostGIS Development Discussion
>> Subject: [postgis-devel] mingw autotools
>>
>> Winguys and wingals,
>>
>> Trying to follow the generic build instructions on the Wiki, I've
>> found that I simply cannot use the mingw/msys autotools to generate a
>> GEOS configure file. If I generate one on OSX and copy it over I can
>> build GEOS, but the mingw tools create a configure which then fails to
>> detect int64 (and god knows what else) which leads to various failures.
>>
>> I can hack around this limitation as I always have, but I'm wondering
>> if there's some unwritten magic you've got going on. I used the
>> instructions, but I got no love.
>>
>> P.
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