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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Gandalf,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sorry I keep on meaning to put up my compile instructions and latest PostGIS build chain up, but everytime I start, I create a mess of things and put it off, cause I’m midway upgrading my chain to a newer and haven’t swapped out my mingw setup.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I had written these instructions not too long ago for building pgRouting under msys/mingw, <a href="https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/Building-on-windows-with-msys2-and-mingw64-(WIP)">https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/Building-on-windows-with-msys2-and-mingw64-(WIP)</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> but got stuck when trying to get pgTap Perl dependencies to finish installing (thus why it still has WIP in the name), so stuck with my old configured chain.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But the idea here, was to have something a bit simpler for people to understand than my “build everything from scratch” approach.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Just ignore the cmake instructions, and follow the pgSphere instructions for building.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The key thing here, is using pacman (the mingw64 package manager) to install the development tool chain.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have never tried to build pgSphere (except like 15 years ago where I failed miserably for some reason). But just a warning, at a glance it looks like pgSphere hasn’t been updated in sometime <a href="https://github.com/akorotkov/pgsphere">https://github.com/akorotkov/pgsphere</a> (and looks like it might only be set to work only thru PG12). So it’s quite possible it may need some patches to work with newer PostgreSQL versions.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Since it doesn’t appear to have dependencies then you can probably do it with mingw/msys just fine and using the pacman packaged PostgreSQL.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If the version offered by pacman installer doesn’t suit you, compiling PostgreSQL from source is fairly trivial as described here <a href="https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/building-postgresql-with-msys2-and-mingw-under-windows/">https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/building-postgresql-with-msys2-and-mingw-under-windows/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regardless whatever you build should be compatible with both mingw64 and PostgreSQL 64 Windows EDB as long as you include the libgcc_s_seh-1.dll and libstdc++-6.dll that comes with the mingw64 install and any other dependencies not shipped with PostgreSQL windows EDB.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I should also note that the pacman packager in that ships with msys2 mingw64, has pretty much every dependency one would need. Heck it even has postgis, geos, gdal., but I don’t use those since I tend to name (for example more than one version of PostgreSQL), and I generally need to test out in development geos.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hope that helps,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regina<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Gandalf the Gray <pjduplooy.gis@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 18, 2023 8:10 AM<br><b>To:</b> postgis-devel@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Windows compile instructions<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi guys (although I think this is for Regina)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Where is the latest compile instructions for Windows located at.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I have a PG extension that I would like to try and compile for Windows. It is PG Sphere.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks a whole bunch for any guidance.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Pieter<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>