[OSM-talk] Wanted: Osm2pgsql.exe developer

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Wed, 2008-11-12 20:38:15 +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Jukka Rahkonen
> <jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi> wrote:
> > I would like to make clear that I do not demand any special services for the
> > Windows users. I understand that this project is running on Linux and that
> > osm2pgsql is done for Mapnik rendering and it is not meant to be used as a
> > general OSM data conversion tool. For that purpose having an ogr2ogr driver
> > would be a better solution. Osm2pgsql.exe is just damn fast in importing OSM
> > data into PostGIS in Windows environment and therefore I am, if not so very
> > willing, but anyway ready to pay for the kind developer who would add those two
> > missing features.
> 
> I have in the past asked for anyone who got osm2pgsql to compile under
> windows to send the patches needed to make it work. However, there
> seems to be a lack of windows developers out there :(

I think I already built something that used PostgreSQL with Windows
and the Cygwin stuff. I do have one Windows host (even with Cygwin
installed) accessible at work.  Maybe I can give it a try the other
day.

However, I don't really know how to distribute the binary. Should the
needed libs be shipped along with it? Or ask the users to install
enough Cygwin stuff until all library dependencies are fulfilled?

> There has to be someone out there which a windows devel environment
> would can spend an afternoon fixing any issues....

I don't think it'll be too hard. I'll try to give it a try.

MfG, JBG

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