[postgis-users] Using/Compiling PostGIS on Windows XP/Cygwin for use with PostgreSQL

[Rudolf Nottrott]

Are you saying that proj4 and geos are required to run
PostGIS with PostgreSQL on Windows/Cygwin?

Are they also required to run PostGIS with PostgreSQL on other platforms, 
in particular Linux?

If so, that adds up to quite an installation chore, mostly because of the 
potential errors that can occur.
I feel a bit daunted!

Rudolf

At 05:01 PM 6/25/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>You need to download and install proj4.  It's the projection library
>used by postgis to handle projecting lat/lons into x,y and the inverse.
>The zip can be found at http://www.remotesensing.org:16080/proj/ .
>Follow the build instructions for windows using the vc compiler.  Let me
>know if you have problems.  You also need geos which can be found at
>http://geos.refractions.net .
>
>Martin Chapman
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rudolf Nottrott [mailto:rnott at alexandria.UCSB.edu]
>Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 4:56 PM
>To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
>Subject: [postgis-users] Using/Compiling PostGIS on Windows XP/Cygwin
>for use with PostgreSQL
>
>
>Hello,
>
>I have been using PostGIS 7.4.3.1,  running under Cygwin on Windows XP,
>and
>that works fine.
>
>Now I want to add  PostGIS, but during the installation I get
>compilation
>errors, as outlined below.
>
>Has anybody done this, I mean successfully installed and used PostGIS
>with
>PostgreSQL on Windows XP?
>
>Would you please give me some advice here?
>
>Thanks for your help and support.
>
>Rudolf
>
>DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCEDURE THAT RESULTS IN ERROR "projects.h: No such
>file or directory":
>========================================================================
>====
>So to install PostGIS with PostgreSQL on Windows XP/Cygwin I followed
>the
>instructions at
>http://www.gasai.com/gisapps/WindowsHowTo.html#Set%20up%20PostGIS
>section "Set up PostGIS",  which includes
>
>- getting postgis-0.8.1.tar.gz
>
>- putting it into the PostgreSQL contrib directory
>      usr/src/postgresql-7.4.3-1/contrib
>
>- untaring/unzipping it there, which results in a directory
>      usr/src/postgresql-7.4.3-1/contrib/postgis-0.8.1    and
>
>- running
>      'make' in
>       usr/src/postgresql-7.4.3-1/contrib/postgis-0.8.1
>
>- When I run that last 'make', I get an error about missing
>    projects.h, as follows
>
>$ make
>gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
>-Wmissing-declarations -g -fexceptions   -I. -DFRONTEND
>-DSYSCONFDIR='"/etc/postgresql"'  -DUSE_VERSION=74
>-I/usr/local/include/geos -DUSE_GEOS -I/usr/local/include
>-DUSE_PROJ  -DUSE_STATS  -I../../src/include   -c -o postgis_transform.o
>
>postgis_transform.c
>
>postgis_transform.c:52:22: projects.h: No such file or directory
>
>postgis_transform.c:55: error: syntax error before '*' token
>postgis_transform.c:55: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration
>of
>`make_project'
>postgis_transform.c:55: warning: data definition has no type or storage
>class
>postgis_transform.c:59: error: syntax error before '*' token
>postgis_transform.c:64: error: syntax error before '*' token
>postgis_transform.c:67: warning: no previous prototype for
>`pj_transform_nodatum'
>etc., etc.
>
>
>
>In an attempt to install PostGIS into my existing PostGIS 7.4.3.1, I
>followed the instructions at
>http://www.gasai.com/gisapps/WindowsHowTo.html#Set%20up%20PostGIS
>which include
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Rudolf
>Santa Barbara
>
>
>
>Rudolf Nottrott
>University of California Santa Barbara     Phone: (805) 893-6146
>Department of Computer Science           E-mail:
>RNott at Alexandria.UCSB.edu
>Alexandria Digital
>Library                       Web:    www.alexandria.ucsb.edu
>Santa Barbara, California  93106
>
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