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Compiling using MingGW-w64 for both 32-bit and 64-bit

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1. Installing Minimalist GNU for Windows-w64 (MinGW-w64)

The objective will be to try to use the MingGW-w64 toolchain instead of the standard MingW since it has support for both 32-bit and 64-bit compiling. Note: We are not successful yet, but just writing down our steps as we go along.

Details of the prefixes of files can be found at What to download

MingW-w64 site is http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net

starting with mingw-w64-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_

mingw-w32-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_ (for my purposes I used mingw-w32-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_20110408.zip) and for native 64-bit (currently using mingw-w64-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_20110516)

  • Extract your respective zip into a folder called C:\mingw_w64 or c:\mingw_w32
  • Add c:\mingw_w64\bin (or c:\mingw_w32\bin) to your windows environment path variable in System Control Panel Advanced Settings -- PATH

2. Installing Msys

MSys is 32-bit but you can use it with your 32-bit or 64-bit mingw-w64. Instructions are here mingw-w64 with MSYS and repeated here for completeness

  • download Msys MSYS-20110309.zip (update there is now a newer MSYS -- MSYS-20110526.zip)
  • Extract into a folder called C:\Msys
  • launch msys.bat
  • type
sh /postinstall/pi.sh

When prompted type in C:/mingw_w64/mingw or C:/mingw_w32/mingw depending on which tool chain you chose Once done, type logout and the console should exit.

3a. Installing Autoconf, Automake and Libtool

Relaunch C:\mysy\msys.bat

Verify which versions of these you have with

autoconf --version

etc.

If they are not newer (or you get not found) than below then download and install. Download the source code from the GNU site and save to c:\projects

cd /c/projects
tar -xvf autoconf-2.65.tar.gz
cd autoconf-2.65
./configure --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --target=i686-w64-mingw32 (if you are building for 64-bit then use --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32)
make && make install
autoconf --version

repeat same exercise for automake

For libtool

cd /c/projects
tar -xvf libtool-2.4.10.tar.gz
cd libtool-2.4
./configure --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --target=i686-w64-mingw32  --disable-shared 
#if you are building for 64-bit then use --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 for the build,host,target
make clean && make && make install
libtool --version

3.b create project folders

 cd /c/projects
 mkdir pg
 mkdir postgresql
 mkdir geos
 mkdir proj
 ls

4. Compiling GEOS

Download latest GEOS source from http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ either the http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.3.0.tar.bz2 or http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-svn.tar.bz2 and copy to c:\projects\geos. You can also use the trunk svn version https://svn.osgeo.org/geos/trunk. If you are using svn version, make sure to run:

sh autogen.sh

(THIS WE DON'T THINK IS NECESSARY ANYMORE and we didn't do it)

I had to comment out the lines as seen below, lines 159 and 166 in your mingw*\include\c++\4.4.6\cwchar

  //using ::swprintf;  
  //using ::vswprintf;


We don't think this is necessary either If you get errors about g++ and libstdc++ moved try this If you are runnning gcc 4.4.0+ and you get complaints about link g++ you probably need to do this too. Changing file: mingw*\i686-w64-mingw32\lib32\libstdc++.la

library_names='libstdc++.dll.a'

to

#library_names='libstdc++.dll.a' 
library_names='libstdc++.a'

#this currently fails at linker phase with a whole bunch of

simplify/.libs/libsimplify.a(TopologyPreservingSimplifier.o):TopologyPreservingS
implifier.cpp:(.rdata+0x1f0): undefined reference to `geos::geom::util::GeometryTransformer::transformGeometryCollection(geos::geom::GeometryCollection const*,
geos::geom::Geometry const*)'

and bunch of other classes in util::GeometryTransformer..
the .la file gets created so seems to be at linker phase.
cd /c/projects/geos
tar xjf geos-3.3.0.tar.bz2
cd geos-3.3.0
./configure --prefix=/c/projects/geos/rel-3.3.0 --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --target=i686-w64-mingw32
make
make install

To strip all the debug info weight from the libgeos DLL files, run

# strip /c/projects/bin/geos/rel-3.3.0/*.dll

5. Compiling Proj

Download Proj4 from the web site, and the datum shifts grid file.

and copy to c:\projects\proj The datum grid file must be unzipped into the "nad" subdirectory of the Proj4 source tree.

 cd /c/projects/proj
 tar xvfz proj-4.7.0.tar.gz
 cd proj-4.7.0
 cd nad
 unzip ../../proj-datumgrid-1.5.zip
 cd ..

Apply mutex patch in http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ticket/72 to src/pj_mutex.c

 ./configure --prefix=/c/projects/proj/rel-4.7.0 --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --target=i686-w64-mingw32 --enable-shared --disable-static
 make
 make install

Seems to give an error on make install (when trying to copy over the nad folder), but generates files in rel-4.7.0. Have to copy the nad folder manually. The .dll file is strangely called libproj-0.dll. of libproj.dll. Oh well.

6. Compiling and Installing C-Unit

Download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/cunit/ into c:\projects

cd /c/projects
tar -xvf CUnit-2.1-2-src.tar.bz2
cd CUnit-2.1.2
./configure --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --target=i686-w64-mingw32
make && make install

7. Compiling LibXML2

mkdir /c/projects/libxml
cd /c/projects/libxml
wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.8.tar.gz 
 tar xvfz libxml2-2.7.8.tar.gz 
cd libxml2-2.7.8
 ./configure --prefix=/c/projects/libxml/libxml2-2.7.8release --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --target=i686-w64-mingw32 --disable-shared CCFLAGS=LDFLAGS="-Wl,-static" CFLAGS=-O2
 make
 make install

8. Compiling PostgreSQL 9.1

Download source from: http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.1.2/postgresql-9.1.2.tar.bz2

mkdir /c/projects/pgx64
cd postgresql
tar -xvjf postgresql-9.1.2.tar.bz2
cd postgresql-9.1.2
./configure --prefix=/c/projects/pgx64/pg91 \
 --build=i686-w64-mingw32 \
 --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --target=i686-w64-mingw32 \
 --with-pgport=8440 --enable-cassert --enable-debug \
 --enable-integer-datetimes --without-zlib

 make
 make install
#initialize the database cluster
/c/projects/pgx64/pg91/bin/initdb -U postgres -D /c/projects/pgx64/pg91/data -A trust
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