[postgis-devel] Win32 Adventures

[Paul Ramsey]

Good news and bad news update.
Good news: I have removed the final regression from the postgis
module, it fully builds and regresses cleanly.
Bad news: the raster module crashes in rt_asgdalraster, which doesn't
speak well to my handling of the build/link of GDAL. Will have to try
some other approaches.

P.

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
> Hey all, here's a little summary of my Adventures in Windows.
>
> I decided to try and re-work the build process using the new
> mingw-get-inst package and the mingw-get utility. This allowed me to
> get the "latest and greatest" packages with a minimum of fussing.  All
> the build packages came down with these commands:
>
> mingw-get install msys-bison msys-flex
> mingw-get install msys-unzip msys-zip
> mingw-get install msys-autoconf
> mingw-get install msys-automake
> mingw-get install msys-libtool
> mingw-get install msys-wget
> mingw-get install mingw32-gettext
> mingw-get install mingw32-libiconv
> mingw-get install mingw32-zlib mingw32-libz
> mingw-get install mingw-utils
>
> SVN is curiously not part of mingw-get, I guess it has too many
> dependencies, so I used the commandline build from sliksvn.
>
> In the end though, the only things I built with mingw were PostgreSQL,
> CUnit, and JSON-C.
>
> GDAL, GEOS, and Proj4 I built with Visual Studio Express 2008.
>
> GTK+ and LibXML2 I downloaded prebuilt binaries.
>
> I ended up assembling everything in a big /c/pgsql directory, and then
> having to hand-craft config scripts for geos-config, xml2-config and
> gdal-config, since the MSVC builds don't create those, but the PostGIS
> build requires them.
>
> Net result, I have a PostGIS that builds and regresses the postgis
> component with the exception of *one* test (ticket #11, which I am
> pretty sure traces back to the -ffloat-store flag that is usually
> applied to one component of GEOS, but I betcha is not applied in the
> MSVC CMake build). You'll have seen a few commits I had to do to get
> run_test working and a fix to the loader. I still have a small custom
> hack in my regress/Makefile.in because 'pwd -W' doesn't work on my
> mingw the way folks seem to thing it should.
>
> I feel like my big bundle of binaries could be useful for getting
> folks up and running with working development environments, and might
> create a set of instructions based around downloading an SDK package.
>
> Anyhow, wanted to share the good news...
>
> P.