Sebastian, I presume you installed the 32-bit PostgreSQL the second time around you installed right? If not that is probably your problem since PostGIS is not yet supported on the 64-bit EDB windows builds (just the 32-bit installers). If you are interested in supporting our efforts to build a 64-bit windows version then you can contribute to our campaign
http://www.pledgebank.com/postgis64windows Other reasons why you get this error: 1) one of the files postgis-1.5.dll depends on is not there. common culprits which should be in the bin folder of your PostgreSQL \ bin folder are libgeos_c-1.dll, libgeos-3-3-2.dll, libproj.dll,libiconv-2.dll, libxml-2-2.dll If all those are present in your PostgreSQL bin, then use dependency walker to check the dependencies which you can download from here http://www.dependencywalker.com/ 2) You are using the wrong postgis-1.5.dll -- note that there is a different version for each version of PostgreSQL. So if you say try to use a 9.0 postgis 1.5 with 9.1 version of PostgreSQL, it won't work. You can download the one for your install from here and replace the postgis-1.5.dll if that is the case: http://www.postgis.org/download/windows/ Hope that helps, Leo and Regina http://www.postgis.us > -----Original Message----- > From: postgis-users-boun...@postgis.refractions.net > [mailto:postgis-users-boun...@postgis.refractions.net] On > Behalf Of Sebastian Matyas > Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 11:20 AM > To: postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > Subject: [postgis-users] Unable to laod "C:/Program Files > (x86)/PostgreSQL/9.1/lib/postgis-1.5.dll" unknown error 998 > > Dear all, > > I recently ran into a weird error for which I cannot find a > solution (tried Google and such) adn I could really use your help. > I installed posgresql 9.1 and postgis 1.5.3 on a Windiws Server 2008 > R2 (64bit) machine and for some time everything went fine. > Then two days ago I was not able to view any data table that > used the geography data type anymore though I didn´t change > anything on the server or the postgis configuration. > > When I then tried to analyze or dump the database I getan > error which says that psql was not able to laod the > postgis-1.5.dll (unknown error > 998) which is strange as the dll is located in the directory > which is given in the error message. I also deinstalled > postgis and tried to install it again but then I get the same > error message. > > Please help me cause I cannot find a solution and I really > need the data... > > Best regards > Sebastian Matyas > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
