[postgis-devel] PostGIS 1.4 and PostgreSQL 8.4

[Waddell, Dave FOR:EX]

Thanks Regina and Mark.  Makes sense now.

For a bare bones PostgreSQL and PostGIS install on Vista, can I get away
without the windows registry entries?

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Mark
Cave-Ayland
Sent: Thu, August 6, 2009 1:56 AM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] PostGIS 1.4 and PostgreSQL 8.4

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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Mark Cave-Ayland - Senior Technical Architect PostgreSQL - PostGIS
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