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Re: MSVC Build support with visual studio 2019

Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-03-26T16:03:05Z
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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.


cheers


andrew


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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).