[Qgis-user] proj on Windows: mini howto for Cygwin

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 05-05-18 07:45, Tobias Wendorff wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> since "proj" uses OSGeo4W to release Windows builds, some users are
> disappointed since OSGeo4W hasn't updated this library for quote a
> while. Since I wanted to do some tests with latest proj, I had to
> compile it for myself. Perhaps you're interested in the steps needed.
> 
> I've used a standard default "Cygwin" installation on Windows 7.
> In addition to the base ones, you also need these packages:
> autogen, automake, gcc-core, libtool, make
> 
> You also need to pull the release from GIT or get the tar.gz archive.
> In the tar.gz, "autogen.sh" is missing. You can grep it from GIT.
> 
> After starting cygwin, you can just build it like this:
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure (add a prefix if needed)
> make (add -j for multicore building)
> make install
> 
> You don't need to "make install", you can run tools like "cs2cs" from
> "src/" for testing propose: "cd src" and "./cs2cs --version"

Hi Tobias,

Does this break other packages?

If not you could try to do a FeatureRequest in the osgeo4w issue
tracker: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w

Or try/help to incorporate it?
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde