[postgis-users] Compiling PostGIS on windows

[Obe, Regina]

I was successful building postgis cvs against the PGXS Development
header files included with the PostGreSQL 8.2.1 under the MinGW/Msys.
Although I haven't tested it yet.  I ran into compilation errors with
the Geos-2.2.3 piece something about  'redefinition of `struct timezone'
in geos ../timeval.h and redefinition in include/sys/time.h which I'm
checking out.

To compile I had to 
configure --with-pgsql="C:/PROGRA~1/POSTGR~1/8.2/bin/pg_config"

I ran into one problem in that the c.h in the PostgreSQL 8.2 refered to
a libintl.h which was not distributed with the 8.2 development files.  I
had to get this from gettext and copy into my 8.2/includes path.  Is
there a legal reason why they wouldn't distribute this file or you think
it was just an oversight.  I was going to ask the same question in
pghackers.

Thanks,
Regina



-----Original Message-----
From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Mark
Cave-Ayland
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 11:10 AM
To: PostGIS Users Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Compiling PostGIS on windows

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 10:38 -0500, Obe, Regina wrote:
> Is it still necessary to compile the PostgreSQL tree first to compile 
> PostGIS?  I thought enhancements in PostgreSQL 8.1 allowed for 
> building contribs just against the header files or PGXS files, but I 
> haven't seen any documentation to that effect.
> 
> Thanks,
> Regina


Hi Regina,

The answer is "maybe". For the Win32 installers, I have a separate
PostgreSQL source tree with lots of debugging options enabled to help
capture any bugs found running the regression tests. So as I don't build
in this way, I'm afraid you'll just have to try it and see. My feeling
is that it should work, but you may have issues converting between
MingW/Windows paths.


Kind regards,

Mark.


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