Re: Makefiles for building with mingw32 on win32

From: haering_python(at)gmx(dot)de
To: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Makefiles for building with mingw32 on win32
Date: 2001-09-05 10:59:30
Message-ID: 20010905125928.A1107@lilith.hqd-internal
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On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:42:28AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Gerhard Häring writes:
>
> > >Can't you run configure on mingw32?
> > >
> > It doesn't work on my system. If somebody gets this to work, why not
> > submit a patch to the documentation?
>
> What do you mean with "work"? You don't have a shell, configure aborts
> with an error, ...?

Yes, with "C compiler cannot create executables.".

> It would be a whole lot prettier to make this work

I agree that it would be "prettier", but I am not willing to make enourmous
efforts myself (i. e. learn several new tools and langauges like awk, m4) for
this. I know next to zero autoconf, so I will need assistance. Are you
volonteering? Where should I ask questions? On the cygwin-pgsql list I
suppose.

> instead of having to maintain yet another non-standard makefile.

You could remove the Visual C++ support so there's only one non-standard
Makefile to maintain. ;-)

So?

Gerhard
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