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

[Tyler Mitchell]

> Sorry for my ignorance with this, but I know nothing about PostgreSQL 
> "native" window builds.  Would those be PostgreSQL packages precompiled 
for 
> Windows (something like PostSQL *.dll), in other words PostgreSQL 
WIndows 
> binary packages, DLLs?
> 
> Do those come with PostGIS and other contrib modules, or how are new 
> modules added to those?

No apologies necessary.  Many folks have taken the time to compile 
Postgresql on windows using a windows (non-cygwin) compiler.  Once that is 
up and running then it's a matter of someone else building the 
postgis.dll, etc.  Then you load the postgis.sql script into the db and 
you've got postgis running.  If you want to add other contrib apps then 
you'd have to compile those on windows without cygwin too( more or less ) 
- but this is all just like if you used Cygwin but you don't need to do 
any compiling or installing.  Instead, you grab a zip file, unzip it into 
a folder, set a couple settings in a batch file and you're running with 
postgresql on windows.

Wanna try it?  Search the list for win32 and you should find some postings 
:)

Tyler