Re: msvc and vista fun

Dave Page wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> On a somewhat related note, I have had spectacular lack of success in 
>> getting either MSVC or MinGW builds to work on Vista - so much so 
>> that I have currently abandoned my attempts on that platform and I 
>> resorted to resuscitating an old XP box for testing. Following some 
>> advice from Magnus, I added ACLs to the build root for both an admin 
>> and a non-admin user (cacls buildroot /E /T /G AdminUser:C and 
>> similarly for a non-admin user) . I can build as the admin user but 
>> when I come to run initdb it fails, complaining that it can't find 
>> the postgres executable. 
>
> Yeah, I ran into that problem as well. I'll look at my Vista box when 
> I'm in the office tomorrow and see if I can figure out what hack fixed 
> it for me.
>
>

I have never heard back on this, AFAIK. If anyone has instructions on 
how to manage this please let me know. My current status with MSVC/vista 
is still that I can build but not run as an admin user, and run but not 
build as a non-admin user. Bleah.

cheers

andrew