[postgis-devel] Compile trouble of Trunk on MingW

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Obe, Regina wrote:
> I'm still having trouble compiling 1.4 SVN under MingW.  It keeps
> complaining that it can't find my Proj install.  My install looks fine
> as far as I can tell.  The proj.exe etc gets installed.  I verified my
> Proj 4.6.1 proj_api.h is in C:\msys\1.0\local\include\proj_api.h
> 
> I tried this
> 
> ./configure --libdir=/usr/local/lib --includedir=/usr/local/include
> --with-pgconfig=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config
> --with-projdir=/usr/local/include
> 
> and keep getting the error
> 
> configure: error: could not find proj_api.h - you may need to specify
> the directory of a PROJ.4 installation using --with-projdir
> 
> I tried using both SVN and nightly snapshot with same error.  Have no
> clue what I am missing here.
> 
> GEOS seems to be automatically detected and pgconfig seem to work fine
> with the --with-pgconfig.
> 
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Regina

Hi Regina,

The clue is in the name ;)  projdir needs to point to base directory of 
the PROJ.4 install, since it needs the information from various 
subdirectories. In your case above, it should work with 
--with-projdir=/usr/local.


HTH,

Mark.

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