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Re: MSVC Build support with visual studio 2019

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-03-21T01:31:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 09:47:02AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> When it comes to support newer versions of MSVC, we have come up
> lately to backpatch that down to two stable versions but not further
> down (see f2ab389 for v10 and v9.6), so it looks sensible to target
> v11 and v10 as well if we were to do it today, and v11/v12 if we do it
> in six months per the latest trends.

By the way, you mentioned upthread that all the branches can compile
with MSVC 2017, but that's not actually the case for 9.5 and 9.4 if
you don't back-patch f2ab389 further down.  Or did you mean that the
code as-is is compilable if the scripts are patched manually?
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Add support for Visual Studio 2019 in build scripts

  2. Support building with Visual Studio 2017

  3. Require C99 (and thus MSCV 2013 upwards).