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Compiling PostGIS 1.5 under VC++

This is still a work in progress: A good tool for extracting tar, gz, and bz files: ​http://www.7-zip.org/

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:\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

Compile GEOS 3.2.2 under VC++

Note that from GEOS 3.3+ — GEOS is moving to CMake build If you wish to compile GEOS 3.3+ instead, please refer to ​GEOS Windows CMake build instructions

1. download ​http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.2.2.tar.bz2
2. extract into c:\projects\geos\geos-3.2.2win
3. Launch start-programs→MS visual c++ 2008→Visual Studio tools command prompt
4. cd c:\projects\geos\geos-3.2.2win
5. Following nmake directions from ​http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/BuildingOnWindowsWithNMake

autogen.bat
nmake /f makefile.vc MSVC_VER=1400

6. The above will generate 2 dlls in the c:\projects\geos\geos-3.2.2win\source folder (geos.dll, geos_c.dll )

Compile Proj under VC++

1. download ​http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-4.7.0.tar.gz
2. extract into c:\projects\proj\proj-4.7.0win
3. Download the ​http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-1.5.zip and extract into your proj-4.7.0-win\nad folder
4. At your VC++ prompt

   cd C:\projects\proj\proj-4.7.0win
   nmake /f makefile.vc MSVC_VER=1400
   

5. the above will create a proj.dll in your C:\Projects\proj\proj-4.7.0win\src folder

Compile libi-conv

Compile or get binaries for libxml2

Compiling PostGIS

1. Download ​http://www.postgis.org/download/postgis-1.5.3SVN.tar.gz

2. Extract into c:\projects\postgis\postgis-1.5.3win
3. Copy the build and platform folders from Mateusz zip file ​http://mateusz.loskot.net/2009/03/29/building-postgis-using-visual-cpp/ and copy into your postgis-1.5.2win folder