[postgis-devel] liblwgeom.so

[Paragon Corporation]

That's strange.  My builds of those don't show any extra dependencies
or am I special because I'm on windows.  Still seems static to me.

I just have a libpq dependency for pgsql2shp and for the gui all the gtk
dependencies.

For shp2pgsql just libiconv-2

I am though very frustrated about not being able to build for 8.4 anymore 
and also what seems to be a sudden slowness since all these changes.

Thanks,
Regina

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net 
> [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On 
> Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 7:42 PM
> To: PostGIS Development Discussion
> Subject: [postgis-devel] liblwgeom.so
> 
> I'm really having a hard time wrapping my head around the 
> benefits of this change, can someone enumerate them?
> 
> On the con side, so far we have a more complicated build and 
> the potential for DLL hell. I note my shp2pgsql and pgsql2shp 
> utilities are showing new the external dependencies now, so 
> they aren't statically linked[1]  Fortunately, postgis-2.0.so 
> is statically linked [2] small blessings.
> 
> Can someone enumerate all the positives this change to now 
> having an extra library installed is bringing us? If someone 
> wants a C geometry abstraction there's GEOS. If they want a 
> feature abstraction that wraps GEOS and provides 
> reprojection, there's OGR. What's the benefit to moving 
> liblwgeom into the system?
> 
> P.
> 
> 
> [1]
> pramsey$ otool -L shp2pgsql
> shp2pgsql:
> 	
> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A
> /CoreFoundation
> (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 550.43.0)
> 	/usr/local/lib/liblwgeom-2.0.0SVN.dylib (compatibility 
> version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
> 	/usr/local/lib/libgeos_c.1.dylib (compatibility version 
> 8.0.0, current version 8.3.0)
> 	/usr/local/lib/libgeos-3.2.3.dylib (compatibility 
> version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
> 	/usr/local/lib/libproj.0.dylib (compatibility version 
> 7.0.0, current version 7.6.0)
> 	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 
> 1.0.0, current version 125.2.11)
> 	/opt/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib (compatibility version 
> 10.0.0, current version 10.1.0)
> 	/opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 
> 8.0.0, current version 8.1.0)
> 
> 
> [2]
> pramsey$ otool -L postgis-2.0.so
> postgis-2.0.so:
> 	/usr/local/lib/libgeos_c.1.dylib (compatibility version 
> 8.0.0, current version 8.3.0)
> 	/usr/local/lib/libproj.0.dylib (compatibility version 
> 7.0.0, current version 7.6.0)
> 	/opt/local/lib/libxml2.2.dylib (compatibility version 
> 10.0.0, current version 10.8.0)
> 	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 
> 1.0.0, current version 125.2.11) 
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