[postgis-devel] Win32 Adventures

[George Silva]

Nevertheless this is great news. Congrats Paul and all the PostGIS team.

Even thought windows is not that great for production this can expand the
user base with the rapid release of new Win builds.

George

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>wrote:

> Good news and bad news update.
> Good news: I have removed the final regression from the postgis
> module, it fully builds and regresses cleanly.
> Bad news: the raster module crashes in rt_asgdalraster, which doesn't
> speak well to my handling of the build/link of GDAL. Will have to try
> some other approaches.
>
> P.
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
> wrote:
> > Hey all, here's a little summary of my Adventures in Windows.
> >
> > I decided to try and re-work the build process using the new
> > mingw-get-inst package and the mingw-get utility. This allowed me to
> > get the "latest and greatest" packages with a minimum of fussing.  All
> > the build packages came down with these commands:
> >
> > mingw-get install msys-bison msys-flex
> > mingw-get install msys-unzip msys-zip
> > mingw-get install msys-autoconf
> > mingw-get install msys-automake
> > mingw-get install msys-libtool
> > mingw-get install msys-wget
> > mingw-get install mingw32-gettext
> > mingw-get install mingw32-libiconv
> > mingw-get install mingw32-zlib mingw32-libz
> > mingw-get install mingw-utils
> >
> > SVN is curiously not part of mingw-get, I guess it has too many
> > dependencies, so I used the commandline build from sliksvn.
> >
> > In the end though, the only things I built with mingw were PostgreSQL,
> > CUnit, and JSON-C.
> >
> > GDAL, GEOS, and Proj4 I built with Visual Studio Express 2008.
> >
> > GTK+ and LibXML2 I downloaded prebuilt binaries.
> >
> > I ended up assembling everything in a big /c/pgsql directory, and then
> > having to hand-craft config scripts for geos-config, xml2-config and
> > gdal-config, since the MSVC builds don't create those, but the PostGIS
> > build requires them.
> >
> > Net result, I have a PostGIS that builds and regresses the postgis
> > component with the exception of *one* test (ticket #11, which I am
> > pretty sure traces back to the -ffloat-store flag that is usually
> > applied to one component of GEOS, but I betcha is not applied in the
> > MSVC CMake build). You'll have seen a few commits I had to do to get
> > run_test working and a fix to the loader. I still have a small custom
> > hack in my regress/Makefile.in because 'pwd -W' doesn't work on my
> > mingw the way folks seem to thing it should.
> >
> > I feel like my big bundle of binaries could be useful for getting
> > folks up and running with working development environments, and might
> > create a set of instructions based around downloading an SDK package.
> >
> > Anyhow, wanted to share the good news...
> >
> > P.
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George R. C. Silva

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