[mapserver-users] question regarding postgis

[Norman Vine]

Jan Hartmann writes:
> . However,  
> PostGIS  cannot be running on the same server as the (Windows) 
> MapServer, as PostgreSQL cannot be compiled for native Windows (yet). 

FYI
PostgreSQL is distributed as part of Cygwin and I have placed a
compiled Cygwin PostGIS extension module at
http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/cygwin/postgis.tgz

There is also a beta Native Win32 PostgreSQL distribution

Cheers

Norman


< following is a repost from the postgis-users list >

From: Norman Vine [nhv at cape.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:01 PM
To: 'postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net'
Subject: RE: [postgis-users] [Fwd: New Beta Release of Windows]

Tyler Mitchell writes:
>
>Can anyone give some guidance on running pgsql2shp/shp2pgsql 
>in windows?
>Anyone else getting consistent results with those tools?

I have placed native WIN32 versions of pgsql2shp / shp2pgsql @
http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/postgres/loaders_win32.tgz

these seem to work fine for me in conjunction with the following

http://dcwaterdesign.sourceforge.net/postgis.zip
ftp://209.61.187.152/multera/postgres_beta2.zip

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