[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0 instalation problem

[Paragon Corporation]

Wouter,

It should work fine with XP.  I tested earlier on a windows xp box.  I think
we had issues with earlier installers.

That said, I haven't tried installing the one from Stack builder on my
windows xp box. I'll give that a try tomorrow to verify that works fine.

Where did you get the installer? -- from EDB Application Stack builder or
are you just using the installer from PostGIS website.

Regarding the libgeos, etc.  Those should all be in the bin folder of
PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL when its in run mode doesn't have problems finding
it so dependency walker is a bit misleading since it by default tries to
find the files in the same folder.

The issue a lot of people had was that we forgot to package the libxml2-2
thinking that the 32-bit already had it.  That we fixed in the installer
packaging though.

The other issue you want to make sure of is that you are using the 32-bit
installer.  We have 2 now (32-bit and 64-bit).  If you use the 64-bit
installer, it will fail.  I forgot which error it gives, but usually
installing the 32-bit over it fixes the issue.

Hope that helps,
Regina
http://www.postgis.us

  

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On 
> Behalf Of wobo
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 6:56 PM
> To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0 instalation problem
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a newbie student, just finished reading 'Postgis in 
> action' and now trying to get PostGIS2.0 up and running for 
> the first time. Now I'm suffering a similar problem in setup 
> like the one mentioned earlier in this thread.
> 
> Using Windows XP SP3 I was able to install the latest 
> PostgreSQl 9.1.3 stable version. Trying to install PostGIS 
> 2.0 with the one-click installer fails during 
> makepostgisdb.bat (CREATE EXTENSION postgis;): 
> ERROR:  could not load library "C:/Program
> Files/PostgreSQL/9.1/lib/postgis-2.0.dll": unknown error 998
> 
> I tried several approaches (restarting, copying by hand, 
> renaming, etc) as mentioned in similar other threads but 
> nothing succeeded so far. All the important files seem to be 
> in the right place. It seemed some needed dependencies first 
> were missing (LIBGEOS, LIBXML2-2, POSTGRES, LIBPROJ-0) so I 
> added the PGBIN to the environment variable. 
> 
> After restart Dependency Walker now finds these mentioned 
> files but there are still dependency errors on IESHIMS.dll 
> and WER.dll. I read that these are unnecessary/unused in 
> Windows Xp. Does this imply that it is impossible to install 
> PostGIS2.0 on Windows XP? Before there were a lot of errors 
> but now the pg_log file only throws the "could not load 
> library postgis-2.0"
> error line like:
> 
> 2012-05-02 00:25:05 CEST LOG:  database system was shut down 
> at 2012-05-01
> 23:26:44 CEST
> 2012-05-02 00:25:06 CEST LOG:  database system is ready to 
> accept connections
> 2012-05-02 00:25:06 CEST LOG:  autovacuum launcher started
> 2012-05-02 00:25:30 CEST ERROR:  could not load library "C:/Program
> Files/PostgreSQL/9.1/lib/postgis-2.0.dll": unknown error 998
> 2012-05-02 00:25:30 CEST STATEMENT:  CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
> 2012-05-02 00:25:30 CEST ERROR:  required extension "postgis" 
> is not installed
> 2012-05-02 00:25:30 CEST STATEMENT:  CREATE EXTENSION 
> postgis_topology;
> 
> I have no clue how to proceed from here... Any suggestions? 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Wouter
> 
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