[postgis-devel]WKTRaster:WhyhavingtocompilePostgreSQL&PostGISfirst?

[Pierre Racine]

Anyway, I now have WKT Raster installed and running and I can now start to play with our new 15000$ toy. Thanks everybody.

We might speak later about better support for Windows and compilation simplification. There is a a lot of potential linux programmer/contributor out there, but there is also a lot of Windows programmers...

Or maybe we are self-sufficient?

Pierre

>-----Original Message-----
>From: postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-devel-
>bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Mark Cave-Ayland
>Sent: 4 mars 2009 12:22
>To: PostGIS Development Discussion
>Subject: Re: [postgis-devel]WKTRaster:WhyhavingtocompilePostgreSQL&PostGISfirst?
>
>Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>
>> Pierre,
>>
>> I can't agree, unless a few details are clarified: system and building system.
>> There is plenty of variants, even the popular configurations may vary.
>> When it comes to report a problem, it's good to answer basic questions:
>> 1. Is it Unix or Windows?
>> 2. Is it Unix with GNU toolchain (GCC & autotools: Autoconf, Automake, libtool, etc.)?
>> 3. Is it Unix with non-GNU stuff (ie. Solaris and its native compiler)?
>> 4. Is it Windows with native compiler - Microsoft Visual C++?
>> 5. Is it Windows with GNU GCC compiler?
>> 5.1. Is it MinGW or GCC from Cygwin?
>> 6. Is it Windows with yet other compiler?
>>
>> There shouldn't be any need to (re)build PostgreSQL if you use Visual C++.
>> Support (or lack of it) of easy configuration of PostGIS for Visual C++ is a different story.
>
>Unfortunately there is with PostGIS if you use newer versions of
>PostgreSQL. Since PostgreSQL 8.3 is now compiled with MSVC, there is no
>way to generate the required PGXS Makefiles, and so you must use MingW
>to generate them.
>
>>> 2) That it takes 20 minutes. The setup is very different on Windows.
>>> All this is a Linux thing and you have to do a lot trial and error to get
>>> it to work on Windows. Took me three days (and two nights).
>>
>> I won't repeat myself, but MinGW should be banned as it's more a troublemaker than helps.
>
>I think this is a little harsh; the MingW project does struggle due to
>lack of resource, but that is like most open source projects. In fact,
>if MingW hadn't been available, it is quite unlikely that the native
>Windows port of PostgreSQL would happened due to the invasiveness of the
>changes required.
>
>While I appreciate that MSVC is a powerful environment for Windows
>programmers, I am not aware of any in-built tools that can do the same
>job as autotools. CMake could be a promising start, but until PostgreSQL
>makes use of it then we are stuck anyway because the MSVC-build doesn't
>generate the required PGXS Makefiles.
>
>
>ATB,
>
>Mark.
>
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