[postgis-devel] RE: PostGIS compilation with Cygwin

[Norman Vine]

Obe, Regina writes:
> Rimma, 
>  
> I'm not sure if building on Cygwin is still being tested with 
> postgis so its kind of hard to tell what kind of strange 
> errors you would be getting.
>  
> Have you tried compiling with MinGW.  I think that's what 
> most Windows developers are using to compile Postgis.  That's 
> what I usually use but its been a while since I've done that 
> myself.  I haven't tried Ming on my windows vista laptop, so 
> I'm not sure if there are any issues with running that on Vista.
>  

I think one needs to either build Postgres locally or have 
the postgres-dev distribution as well as the source distribution
installed

HTH

Norman