Perl

Perl is the base of all higher level tools in Geoinformatica. The following assumes Perl 5.10.0

The makefile.mk in win32/ is the build configuration. I'm adding -mms-bitfields to line 525. see ​this discussion

Also, I change INST_TOP to $(INST_DRV)\Geoinformatica

The build is easy, in dos command prompt:

dmake
dmake install

Perl modules are always built in shell using dmake

lib/ExtUtils/Liblist/Kid.pm needs to be patched with Kid.pm.diff (works for EU::MM 6.52) to make it find import libraries that end with .dll.a

GTK+

GTK+

I'm not building these myself. We'll need both

​ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.10/win32/ and

​http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net

since we need Gtk2::GladeWin

Glib, Cairo, Pango, and Gtk2 modules

ExtUtils::Depends is one of the prerequisites of these. Currently it needs to be patched with a patch attached to ​this bug report

Also pango.exports needs (1.220)

gtk2perl_pango_attribute_register_custom_type
gtk2perl_pango_attribute_get_type
gtk2perl_pango_attr_iterator_get_type
gtk2perl_pango_script_iter_get_type

and newSVPangoRectangle and SvPangoRectangle need to be removed from Gtk2.exports (1.220).

Data access and geo libraries

These are built in MSYS. Most are used by GDAL.

• pq to access data in PostgreSQL and PostGIS
  • it's possible to use the libpq from the Windows ports of these
• expat, needed for curl
  • there's a good Windows port with devel support available in it's home page
• curl, needed for WMS, WCS, WFS
• GEOS for simple features methods
• Proj4 for cartographic projections
  • the DLL needs to be made manually:

cd src
gcc -shared -o libproj.dll -Wl,--out-implib=libproj.dll.a \
-Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--whole-archive \
.libs/libproj.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive /c/mingw/lib/libmingw32.a

​See also this

• GDAL
  • GTK+ may cause problems because it contains libtiff, I move libtiff includes away and use the internal libtiff
  • $(GDAL_ROOT)/ needs to be removed from GNUmakefile
  • I've made a gdal.pc, which is used by Geo::Raster and Geo::Vector

    prefix=/usr/local
    exec_prefix=${prefix}
    libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
    includedir=${prefix}/include
    
    Name: GDAL
    Description: Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
    Version: 1.7.0
    Requires: libcurl xerces-c
    Libs:  -L${exec_prefix}/lib -lgdal.dll -lgeos.dll -lgeos_c.dll -lexpat -lpq -ljpeg -lpng12 -lz
    Cflags:  -I${prefix}/include
    

• libral
  • there's a MinGW specific Makefile, use it The DLL's may be bloated because of debug code, use strip --strip-debug x.dll to remove it.