[postgis-devel] Compilation using Visual C++ 8.0

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Mateusz Loskot wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I'm glad to report that I managed to compile (not build) PostGIS
> source code (r3848) using Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 (VS 2005).
> Here is complete compiler output:
> 
> http://mateusz.loskot.net/tmp/postgis/postgis-r3848-msvc-build.log
> 
> As dependencies providers, I used
> - PROJ.4 4.6.1 from OSGeo4W
> - GEOS built from SVN trunk
> - Source code of PostgreSQL 8.3.6
> 
> As I emphasized, I managed to compile the code, not to do complete
> build. I compiled liblwgeom and postgis to static libraries.
> I've not tried yet to build postgis to DLL and link everything against
> PROJ.4/GEOS/PostgreSQL.
> 
> Here is patch that includes:
> 1) 3 projects Visual Studio 2005: bootstrap, liblwgeom, postgis
> 2) stdint.h and inttypes.h from http://code.google.com/p/msinttypes/
> 3) Small fixes in PostGIS code
> 
> http://mateusz.loskot.net/tmp/postgis/postgis-r3848-msvc-build.patch
> 
> Next step is to change postgis.vcproj to build DLL and try to link a
> proper run-time binary.


Hi Mateusz,

This looks great. I'll take a look at these and see about 
reviewing/committing the non-MSVC project parts over the next few days.


ATB,

Mark.

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