Install PostGIS on Solaris 11 (11.3)

I said I would install PostGIS for a student project but I wish I never said yes, since it has taken over a week to compile it.

As you may guess there are not many working instruction out in the wild!

I will break down this step-by-step guide into different blogs entries otherwise it will get very long.

• Compile PostgreSQL on Solaris 11 (11.3)
• Proj4 reprojection library (GNU compilers)  or (Developer Studio 12.5) 
• GEOS geometry library (GNU compilers) or (Developer Studio 12.5)
• GDAL

I had to compile all software using GCC since Solaris Studio gave to many problems:

• Geos fails to compile : See Need to compile the libGeos using Sun Studio12 on Solaris10 #224

libtool: compile:  /opt/developerstudio12.5/bin/CC -m64 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../include -I../../include/geos -I../../include -m64 -DGEOS_INLINE -pedantic -Wall -ansi -Wno-long-long -m64 -c ConvexHull.cpp  -KPIC -DPIC -o .libs/ConvexHull.o
CC: Warning: Option -ansi passed to ld, if ld is invoked, ignored otherwise
"ConvexHull.cpp", line 121: Warning: inputPts hides geos::algorithm::ConvexHull::inputPts.
"ConvexHull.cpp", line 160: Warning: inputPts hides geos::algorithm::ConvexHull::inputPts.
"ConvexHull.cpp", line 211: Error: Could not find a match for std::vector::assign(__rwstd::__rb_tree, geos::geom::CoordinateLessThen, std::allocator>::const_iterator, __rwstd::__rb_tree, geos::geom::CoordinateLessThen, std::allocator>::const_iterator) needed in geos::algorithm::ConvexHull::reduce(std::vector&).
1 Error(s) and 2 Warning(s) detected.

• PostGIS had to many errors to mention here
• No python module install with GDAL, again to many compile errors. 
• Ref: Alternative installation for Solaris 10 using OpenCSW  

Compile PostGIS

# pkg install developer/gcc-45 build/gnu-make
# pkg install libtool automake autoconf gnu-gettext library/libxml2 library/json-c
# export PATH=/usr/gcc/4.5/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/lib:/usr/gnu/bin:

# gzip -dc postgis-2.2.2.tar.gz  | tar xf -
# cd postgis-2.2.2

See the following for a fix for undeclared NAN. "'NAN' undeclared (first use in this function)"

# ./configure CC='gcc -m64' CFLAGS='-m64 -DNAN="(0.0/0.0)"' LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/postgres/9.53-pgdg/lib/64' CXX='g++ -m64' \
    --prefix=/usr/local/postgres/postgis \
    --with-pgconfig=/usr/local/postgres/9.53-pgdg/bin/64/pg_config \
    --with-geosconfig=/usr/local/postgres/geos/bin/geos-config \
    --with-gdalconfig=/usr/local/postgres/gdal/bin/gdal-config \
    --with-projdir=/usr/local/postgres/proj4
...
config.status: executing po-directories commands

  PostGIS is now configured for x86_64-pc-solaris2.11

 -------------- Compiler Info -------------
  C compiler:           gcc -m64 -m64 -DNAN="(0.0/0.0)"
  SQL preprocessor:     /usr/gcc/4.5/bin/cpp -traditional-cpp -w -P

 -------------- Dependencies --------------
  GEOS config:          /usr/local/postgres/geos/bin/geos-config
  GEOS version:         3.5.0
  GDAL config:          /usr/local/postgres/gdal/bin/gdal-config
  GDAL version:         2.1.0
  PostgreSQL config:    /usr/local/postgres/9.53-pgdg/bin/64/pg_config
  PostgreSQL version:   PostgreSQL 9.5.3
  PROJ4 version:        49
  Libxml2 config:       /usr/bin/xml2-config
  Libxml2 version:      2.9.4
  JSON-C support:       yes
  PCRE support:         no
  PostGIS debug level:  0
  Perl:                 /usr/bin/perl

 --------------- Extensions ---------------
  PostGIS Raster:       enabled
  PostGIS Topology:     enabled
  SFCGAL support:       disabled
  Address Standardizer support:       disabled

 -------- Documentation Generation --------
  xsltproc:             /usr/bin/xsltproc
  xsl style sheets:    
  dblatex:             
  convert:             
  mathml2.dtd:          http://www.w3.org/Math/DTD/mathml2/mathml2.dtd


# gmake
# gmake install

Any updates or additions  please let me know so that I can keep this pages up to date.