Re: Win32 port patches submitted

Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Postgres development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-01-21T18:03:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > I don't see a strong reason not
> > to stick with good old configure; make; make install.  You're already
> > requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full
> > shell environment.
> 
> Indeed.  I think the goal here is to have a port that *runs* in native
> Windows; but I see no reason not to require Cygwin for *building* it.

Agreed.

We focused on porting the programs. The goal was to have PostgreSQL
running native on Win32 for a user. Having a nice and easy maintainable
cross platform config, build and test environment for the developers is
definitely something that still needs to be done (hint, hint).


Jan

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