Before you can install PostGIS 1.4 with the slick graphical interface for shp2pgsql, you need to install GTK++ 2.8 or above. This is still a work in progress -- since I got as far as getting it to compile to .o but failed at the linker when linking all the .os. (If you got to this page before reading full install -- refer to [UsersWikiWinCompile Compiling PostGIS under Windows (basic)] '''1. Install GTK++ Bundle''' 1. Download GTK++ bundle described on this page http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html. The direct link is (http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.16/gtk+-bundle_2.16.2-20090601_win32.zip) 2. Follow the instructions in the readme.txt -- repeated below a) create folder c:\opt\gtk [[BR]] b) extract contents of zip to the new folder [[BR]] c) add c:\opt\gtk\bin to your windows environment search path [[BR]] d) launch msys and run following: [[BR]] pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 [[BR]] e) gtk-demo (and verify it opens a gui) '''2. Compiling PostGIS SVN 1.4 (with shp2pgql-gui)''' 1. Download postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.4.0SVN.tar.gz and put in C:/thesrc 2. ''cd /c/thesrc'' 3. ''gzip -d -c postgis-1.4.0SVN.tar.gz | tar xvf -'' 4. ''cd postgis-svn'' 5. export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/c/opt/gtk/lib/pkgconfig 6. ''configure --prefix=/c/postgresql --with-pgconfig=/c/postgresql/bin/pg_config --with-geosconfig=/c/postgresql/bin/geos-config --with-projdir=/c/postgresql'' --with-gui 7. ''make clean && make'' 8. ''make install'' 9. ''make check''