Re: Win32 port patches submitted
Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>
From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Postgres development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-01-29T19:47:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Justin Clift writes: > > > The advantages to having the Win32 port be natively compatible with > > Visual Studio is that it already is (no toolset-porting work needed > > there), > > You're missing a couple of points here. First, the MS Visual whatever > compiler can also be used with a makefile-driven build system. Second, > the port as it stands isn't really compatible with anything except Jan's > build instructions. There's a lot of work to be done before we get > anything that builds out of the box in the 7.4 branch, and it's going to > be a lot easier if we do it using the build system we already have and > know. Absolutely right, I know that the build environment is more a mess than an environment. All I said is that we have a stable, working, native Win32 PostgreSQL 7.2.1 ... And I don't care if we use MingW, Borland, Cygwin or a big blend of it all, as long as the final result can be shipped binary under the BSD license. Jan -- #======================================================================# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #================================================== JanWieck@Yahoo.com #