These article deals with compiling PostGIS 1.1.0 on Windows. The tests have been done on a SONY VAIO PCG FR215E and a SONY VAIO VGN FS315H. These article has been written by a French guy. So excuse-me for my bad English.

We need a complete MinGW/Msys distribution on Windows in order to build our tools.

Donwload the following tools: MinGW: http://www.mingw.org/download.html (Get version 5.0.0.exe or 4.0.1.exe) Msys: http://www.mingw.org/download.html (Get version1.0.8.exe) MsysDTK http://www.mingw.org/download.html (Get version1.0.1.exe) When you install Msys, you will be prompted for free questions (a DOS windows will open). Answer by question 1: y question 2: y question 3: c:/MinGW There are others tools to install

Go to the following URL http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html. In order to compil PostgreSQL, I'm used to using the following tools: bison zlib Flex GetText LibIconv Install them to c:\MinGW.

The versions used here for the tools above are MinGW MinGW-5.0.0.exe Msys MSYS-1.0.8.exe MsysDTK msysDTK-1.0.1.exe bison bison-2.1.exe zlib zlib-?.exe Flex flex-2.5.4a-1.exe Gettext gettext-0.14.4.exe libiconv libiconv-1.8.1-bin.exe

Here, we will install our GIS tools. First, we are going to make the directory where our tools will be installed. So double-clcik on c:\msys mkdir

Download PostgreSQL from ftp://ftp.fr.postgresql.org/source/v8.1.1/postgresql-8.1.1.tar.gz and do cd /path/where/you/have/downloaded/postgresql-8.1.1.tar.gz tar xvzf postgresql-8.1.1.tar.gz cd postgresql-8.1.1 configure --prefix=/c/PostgreSQL/8.1.1 --with-CXX --enable-multibyte --enable-nls make make install

Download Geos from http://geos.refractions.net/geos-2.2.1.tar.bz2 and do tar xvjf geos-2.2.1.tar.bz2 cd geos-2.2.1 configure --prefix=/c/PostgreSQL/8.1.1 && make && make install

Download Proj from ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/proj/proj-4.4.9.tar.gz then do tar xvzf proj-4.4.9.tar.gz cd proj-4.4.9 configure --prefix=/c/PostgreSQL/8.1.1 && make && make install We need to create libproj.dll. So we do cd /c/PostgreSQL/8.1.1/lib gcc -shared -o libproj.dll -Wl,--out-implib=libproj.dll.a -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,\ --enable-auto-import -Wl,--whole-archive libproj.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive /c/mingw/lib/libmingw32.a

Donwload PostGIS from http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.1.0.tar.gz then do tar xvzf postgis-1.1.0.tar.gz We need to modify our PATH environment variable export PATH=/c/PostgreSQL/8.1.1/bin:/c/PostgreSQL/8.1.1/lib:$PATH We have to modify postgis-1.1.0/configure.in. Open this file, and replace on line 455 the following line PGFELIBS="`${PGCONFIG} --libdir`/libpq.dll" by this one: PGFELIBS="$(echo $(${PG_CONFIG} --libdir)/libpq.dll)" Then from MinGW, do configure make make install

This document was written by Jean David TECHER. First release on 2006-01-01 / 00:15. The PDF version of this document was got by using dblatex (http://dblatex.sourceforge.net)