Re: Reduce the number of special cases to build contrib modules on windows

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-04-19T21:28:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 4/19/21 12:24 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> diff --git a/src/tools/msvc/MSBuildProject.pm b/src/tools/msvc/MSBuildProject.pm
>> index ebb169e201..68606a296d 100644
>> --- a/src/tools/msvc/MSBuildProject.pm
>> +++ b/src/tools/msvc/MSBuildProject.pm
>> @@ -310,11 +310,12 @@ sub WriteItemDefinitionGroup
>>  	my $targetmachine =
>>  	  $self->{platform} eq 'Win32' ? 'MachineX86' : 'MachineX64';
>>  
>> -	my $includes = $self->{includes};
>> -	unless ($includes eq '' or $includes =~ /;$/)
>> +	my $includes = "";
>> +	foreach my $inc (@{ $self->{includes} })
>>  	{
>> -		$includes .= ';';
>> +		$includes .= $inc . ";";
>>  	}
> Perl note: you can do this more easily as 
>
>   my $includes = join ';', @{$self->{includes}};
>   $includes .= ';' unless $includes eq '';
>

or even more simply:


    my $includes = join ';', @{$self->{includes}}, "";

cheers


andrew

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Andrew Dunstan
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Commits

  1. Remove some special cases from MSVC build scripts

  2. Adjust MSVC build scripts to parse Makefiles for defines

  3. Don't duplicate references and libraries in MSVC scripts

  4. Make the includes field an array in MSVC build scripts

  5. Use the AddFile function consistently in MSVC build scripts

  6. Remove seemingly unneeded include directory in MSVC scripts