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Re: MSVC Build support with visual studio 2019

Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>

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From: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-03-27T00:42:02Z
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 3:03 AM Andrew Dunstan <
andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

>
> On 3/20/19 8:36 PM, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> > Hi Hackers,
> >
> > Here I attached a patch that supports building of PostgreSQL with VS
> 2019.
> > VS 2019 is going to release on Apr 2nd 2019, it will be good if version
> 12
> > supports compiling. The attached for is for review, it may needs some
> > updates
> > once the final version is released.
> >
> > Commit d9dd406fe281d22d5238d3c26a7182543c711e74 has reduced the
> > minimum visual studio support to 2013 to support C99 standards,
> > because of this
> > reason, the current attached patch cannot be backpatched as it is.
> >
> > I can provide a separate back branches patch later once this patch
> > comes to a stage of commit. Currently all the supported branches are
> > possible to compile with VS 2017.
> >
> > comments?
> >
> >
>
>
> I have verified that this works with VS2019.
>
>
> There are a few typos in the comments that need cleaning up.
>

Thanks for the review.

I corrected the typos in the comments, hopefully I covered everything.
Attached is the updated patch. Once the final VS 2019, I will check the
patch if it needs any more updates.

Regards,
Haribabu Kommi
Fujitsu Australia

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).