[postgis-devel] PostGIS 1.4 and PostgreSQL 8.4

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Paragon Corporation wrote:

> Dave,
>  
> Both should work fine.  The version we compiled was the newest 
> libiconv2, but we tested the shp2pgsql with the old version and the new 
> and it seemed to work fine for us in either case and didn't notice any 
> issues with the PostgreSQL behavior we have.
>  
> So I think you are fine sticking with what is packaged with the 
> PostgreSQL 8.4 if its got the same name.
>  
> The installation issues discussed before were caused because PostGIS 
> install tried to overwrite the libiconv-2.dll which was already present 
> in PostgreSQL installs so the solution has always been to just skip it 
> if you have it.  Although in my PostgreSQL 8.4 install for some reason 
> the file that I got when installing was libiconv.dll (which is the same 
> as libiconv-2.dll more or less), but PostGIS the way it is compiled 
> needs it to be called libiconv-2.dll
>  
> Mark correct me if anything I send is wrong.

That pretty much sounds correct. It only occurs because the GNUWin32 
folks took it upon themselves to give the DLLs different names than 
those created with autotools, and with the PostgreSQL move to MSVC then 
this has become more of an issue. At the moment PostgreSQL and PostGIS 
have their own separate DLLs, and so all is well :)


HTH,

Mark.

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