On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayl...@siriusit.co.uk> wrote: > Dave Page wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> Interesting. Doesn't EDB's PostgresPlus package include PostGIS, and >>> isn't >>> its Windows version build with MSVC? >> >> Yes - it's a PITA as we have to have a dummy build of the server in >> mingw/msys to compile PostGIS and Slony. We're probably going to be >> looking at that in the not-to-distant future as we want 64bit builds >> of both and will be using VC++. > > Just for the record, a lot of work was done in the 1.4 release series to > make MSVC builds possible, and indeed several people have reported success: > > http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-devel/2009-March/005102.html > http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-devel/2010-September/010299.html
Cool - that will help. > The two main outstanding issues as I see it are: > > 1) The GTK-based GUI for shp2pgsql (although if someone wanted to sponsor > work to convert to wxWidgets to bring us in line with pgAdmin, that would be > strongly considered). :-) > 2) Maintenance of the MSVC build system. So far we have had some complaints > about not using MSVC, but then no-one has stepped up to maintain the build > system for it. Forcing all existing developers to suddenly start maintaining > the Windows build is a total non-starter. Unless you're making major architectural changes, it shouldn't take any real effort to add/remove the occasional source file. I'm sure there are folks that could be persuaded to do that occasionally. > My hope is that one day CMake will enable us to come up with a universal > solution, but we're some way from that yet. We used CMake for a couple of projects, but ended up abandoning it for new stuff. It just didn't work as nicely as we wanted. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
