[postgis-devel] Problems compiling PostGIS under MinGW

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Jorge Arévalo wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm compiling PostGIS and all needed stuff in MinGW following this:
> http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiWinCompile (BTW, I've made
> two little changes in this wiki page).
> 
> My problem is starting postgreSQL server. If I execute:
> 
> /c/postgres/bin/pg_ctl.exe -D /c/postgres/data -l logfile start
> 
> I get the error message:
> 
> This application has failed to start because libpq.dll was not found.
> Re-installing the application may fix this problem mingw
> 
> The dll file is in its place (/c/postgres/lib), and I've compiled
> everthing, several times. I can't provide a log file because is not
> generated
> 
> Any clues? Regina, I think you provide PostGIS Windows builds, what
> enviroment are you using?

Hmmmm I seem to remember in some cases I had to copy libpq.dll from 
postgres/lib to postgres/bin due to the way in which PATH is set on 
Windows. Does that help at all?


ATB,

Mark.

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