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Building on windows with msys2 and mingw64 (WIP)

Regina Obe edited this page Apr 6, 2023 · 5 revisions
  1. Download msys2 from https://www.msys2.org/ and run the exe installer
  2. After installing, launch the mingw64.exe
  3. Run the following commands
pacman -Syu pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain pacman --needed -S git mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-postgresql mingw-w64-x86_64-postgis 
  1. Launch PostgreSQL
#now initialize postgresql cluster initdb -D C:/temp/pgsql # start the cluster pg_ctl -D C:/temp/pgsql -l logfile start 
  1. Connect to PostgreSQL and create test db
psql -d postgres #connect to postgres database 
# in psql shell SELECT version(); -- outputs the version CREATE DATABASE gisdb; \c gisdb CREATE EXTENSION postgis; SELECT postgis_full_version(); exit 
  1. Build pgtap - this is needed for testing
#back in shell mkdir C:/projects cd C:/projects git clone https://github.com/theory/pgtap.git cd pgtap cpan CPAN::DistnameInfo cpan TAP::Parser::SourceHandler::pgTAP make make installcheck 
  1. Download and try to build pgrouting
# back in shell mkdir C:/projects cd C:/projects git clone https://github.com/pgRouting/pgRouting.git cd pgRouting cmake --version #returns cmake version 3.25.2 rm -rf build mkdir build cd build cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" .. cmake --build . make install 

pgTap tests

psql -c "CREATE DATABASE ___pgr___test___;" -d postgres cd /c/projects/pgrouting bash ./tools/testers/pg_prove_tests.sh 
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