[postgis-devel] mingw autotools

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Paul Ramsey wrote:

> Winguys and wingals,
> 
> Trying to follow the generic build instructions on the Wiki, I've
> found that I simply cannot use the mingw/msys autotools to generate a
> GEOS configure file. If I generate one on OSX and copy it over I can
> build GEOS, but the mingw tools create a configure which then fails to
> detect int64 (and god knows what else) which leads to various
> failures.
> 
> I can hack around this limitation as I always have, but I'm wondering
> if there's some unwritten magic you've got going on. I used the
> instructions, but I got no love.
> 
> P.

 From memory, the version of autotools supplied with MSYS dates from the 
dawn of time and so the first thing I did on my MingW/MSYS setup was to 
install the latest version of autotools which pretty much solved everything.


ATB,

Mark.

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