Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Anthony Roberts <anthony.roberts@linaro.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Mike Holmes <mike.holmes@linaro.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, robhenry@microsoft.com, "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@linaro.org>
Date: 2023-08-31T05:33:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 01:06:53AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> That's a good point.  The hardware resources to support a buildfarm
> animal are really pretty trivial these days.  What is important is
> an animal owner who is willing to help chase down problems when they
> arise.

Unfortunately I don't see myself running that at home.  It is too hot
and humid in Summer so the machine would not last.  Something in the
cloud would be OK for me, but AWS has no option for a Windows host
with ARM yet.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. MSVC: Support building for AArch64.

  2. Remove "#ifdef WIN32" guards from src/port/win32*.c

  3. Adjust XML test case to avoid unstable behavior.

  4. Enable RandomizedBaseAddress (ASLR) on Windows with MSVC builds