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Compiling PostGIS 1.5 under VC++

This is still a work in progress

Compile PostgreSQL under VC++ 2008 (express or Studio)

Note that if you are compiling for 64-bit, Express is not supported so you have to use VC++ Professional or above. ​Full details here

We will just cover enough to be able to compile PostGIS so will not be compiling with additional dependencies

1. Install Active State ActivePerl (5.8+) ​http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads
2. Download PostgreSQL source and Extract PostgreSQL 9.0 source tar ball ​http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ into folder C:\Projects\PostgreSQL\postgresql-9.0.1win
3. Create a file C:\Projects\PostgreSQL\postgresql-9.0.1win\src\tools\msvc\buildenv.pl

Add add a line — note in our case — we compile with mingw usually, so we are completely overwriting the path with one that doesn't contain mingw because mingw and VC++ don't play well together when compiling PostgreSQL

#-- buildenv.pl starts here --
$ENV{PATH}='C:\perl\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\;C:\Program Files\Support Tools\;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\opt\gtk\bin;C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.1\bin';
$ENV{PATH} = $ENV{PATH} . ';C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\VCPackages';
# -- buildenv.pl ends here --

4. Open up VC ++ commandling from: start→Programs→Visual c++ Express 2008 →Visual Studio Tools

5. cd C:\Projects\PostgreSQL\postgresql-9.0.1win\src\tools\msvc
6. clean.bat
7. build.bat

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