[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #948: Compile PostGIS under MingW64 - windows 64-bit offering

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#948: Compile PostGIS under MingW64 - windows 64-bit offering
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 Reporter:  robe         |       Owner:  robe         
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium       |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.0
Component:  postgis      |     Version:  trunk        
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment(by robe):

 Can't you use MingW-64 under Linux.  The link I have on Geos ticket points
 to Linux binaries for it. So you would at least be able to trouble-shoot -
 Or is that not really baked in.

 Given why everyone is saying -- why are you doing this.  We are beginning
 to wonder ourselves now.  Perhaps few people care as much as we think they
 did.

  Strk I think said he tried MingW-64 and couldn't get "hello world" to
 work so gave up on that. Well if it is that no one is interested in a
 64-bit windows we could just give up on that dream.  The main reason we
 want to is to compare the performance of our 64-bit Windows running true
 64-bit PostgreSQL against our Linux 64-bit to see if it really does make
 much of a difference.  One of our clients is running parallel.  They have
 a build on 64-bit windows (with 32-bit PostGIS) and one on 64-bit CentOS.
 Both running more or less the same database.

 Performance wise - Linux is slightly better but not by all that much.  For
 some larger queries it is much better.  That might have more to do with
 the ability to run higher shared memory and so forth on Linux than on
 windows and also that fact that windows is doing the webserver processing
 as well as some other things (though shutting that didn't make things
 better or worse).

 The main issue why this is important to them is they have some processes
 -- e.g. specialize reporting and so forth that won't work under Linux
 since they require windows.  So its sort of a question of "Do we pay twice
 for hosting to have Linux DB server and Windows webserver" or can we do
 everything on windows.

 aside from that -- it's just the nagging non-paying windows users whining
 about how they can't use 64-bit PostgreSQL.  We care much less about them
 of course until they put their money or time where their mouth is.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/948#comment:4>
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