[postgis-devel] Problems compiling PostGIS under MinGW

[Jorge Arévalo]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>
Hi,

I re-compiled postgresql, setting LD_RUN_PATH to /c/postgres/lib
before, and then copied libpq.dll to /c/postgres/bin, as you said.
Seems to work :-)

Many thanks!

Best regards,
Jorge


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