[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #925: [raster] ST_Transform

[Paragon Corporation]

>  You two are really trying to dissuade me from dealing with the ordeal of
a  Windows build environment ;-).  But, I've taken the plunge and am
building  a Window XP VM.  From the looks of it, is everything compiled
through  
>  MinGW?  Any reason we don't do Visual Studio or something of that sort
either (since GDAL officially doesn't support MinGW)?
In theory you can use the VS dlls with MingW and so forth, but mingw just
like any unix environment needs the header files generated during compile
and without that, PostGIS won't go since a PostGIS compiled MingW coughs up
at the site of GEOS VC++ and GDAL VC++ compiled.  Well doesn't hurt to try
though -- you might teach us a thing or 2 :).

Yes we like you too much to not try to save you from a windows death.
Pierre and I are after all windows zombies.  

Pierre, 
  as Mark said my proj is not statically compiled -- its dynamic based on
the instructions he linked to.

However my GDAL doesn't show any dependency on proj at all which leads me to
believe its statically compiled in or not working at all.  I looked at a
VC++ compiled GDAL and its got porj, goes and all sorts of other
dependencies.

> I always like have some approximation of what end-users are using so that
when these kinds of problems come up, I'm not flailing my hands wildly...

Hmm -- maybe you can convince strk to jump into windows too -- I've tried to
get him to taste a bit of the windows black death (to help me debug my GEOS
woes) and it's a tug of war between us:

"Wouldn't you like to bask in this unix/linux yumminess and enjoy free
software without strings attached ?", strk says
"Wouldn't you like to try the excitement of stepping at the footdoor of
death and then leaping just before the grim reaper strikes?",  I say


Thanks,
Regina