[postgis-users] Accessing PostGIS from ArcView

[Armin Burger]

Steffen,

I would be interested in the wrapper dll. Would be nice if I could get
it.

I haven't tried ArcView on Win 9*, so I don't know if dll calls cause
problems. But the extension uses dll calls anyway for database access.

Armin

>> The extension uses the pgsql2shp.exe to create the shapefiles. That
will
>> always open a command window what is not very elegant. To avoid this,
the
>> compilation of a library instead of the executable would be
necessary.
>> Can
>> anybody tell me how much effort it would be to change the C code in
order
>> to compile as library?

> I had a similar problem with calling the EPANET hydraulic analysis
> software
> from ArcView. My solution was a small wrapper dll that calls the
> commandline
> program.
> This is much easier to maintain than a dll (especially if you're using
> gcc)
> I can provide you source code and dll if you like. However, I think
there
> are
> problems with dll calls from Win9* - I had no success getting them to
> work.

> Steffen

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