Re: MSVC Build support with visual studio 2019

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

To: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>

Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2019-03-21T07:13:55Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 12:45:57PM +1100, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> The commit f2ab389 is later back-patch to version till 9.3 in commit
> 19acfd65.  I guess that building the windows installer for all the
> versions using the same visual studio is may be the reason behind
> that back-patch.

I did not remember this one, thanks for pointing it out.  So my
memories on that were incorrect.  If it is possible to get the code to
build with MSVC 2019 on all the supported branches, we could do so.
--
Michael

Commits

Add support for Visual Studio 2019 in build scripts
- d49c127d90f9 9.4.24 landed
- 3337fd192596 9.5.19 landed
- 78aaffd285c4 9.6.15 landed
- 0ce8e49b2243 10.10 landed
- 721963f24ae8 11.5 landed
- f2d069ce95b1 12.0 landed
- 2b1394fc2b52 13.0 landed
Support building with Visual Studio 2017
- 19acfd6528bc 9.4.20 cited
- f2ab3898f3a2 11.0 cited
Require C99 (and thus MSCV 2013 upwards).
- d9dd406fe281 12.0 cited